15 July 1805

Evidence

Introd. Jurisprud.

Ch. Vices

After this /By the above/ review of the sources, the reader is in some measure prepared for a list /catalogue/ of the vices inherent in a constitution /inseparable [...?]/ of jurisprudential law.

1. At the head of the list is uncertainty. So many sources of the system, so many elements of the uncertainty which is essential to characterise it.

In what has been said in relation to /under the head of/ uncertainty, an exception must however /all along/ be made in favour of the three grand products of the technical system, expense vexation and delay. On the side of increase no determinate limits can with any certainty be assigned to their respective quantities. But on the opposite side of domination they have in every /each/ instance a minimum: and within the limits marked out by that minimum they are as certain as death.