7 May 1805

Evidence

Introd.

Ch. 12 Procedure Natural

''.6. Modification necessary

Procedure 1. Powers. 2 [...?]

+ Ch. or ''. Modification necessary to fit /adapt/ the domestic System to the purposes of political judicature.

On considering the domestic system of procedure

On considering with a view to its application to the exigencies /field of action/ of a political community the course /system/ of judicature pursued /observed/ in a family two considerations /reflections/ /[...?]/ /observations/ strike at once upon the mind: how beneficial it would be /it would be in the highest degree/ could /that/ any such extended application should take place; and how /that/ impracticable /impossible/ it is that, without considerable addition /modifications/ and alterations, it should be enabled to fulfil the main ends /be [...?] to the fulfilment of the aggregate mass of the ends/ of justice.

Vexation, unnecessary or preponderant, none: expence, absolutely none: delay, none but what is absolutely necessary to the establishment of the justice of the demand /classes/ of just, of the fact of its not being done, of its injustice if not done. This much as to the collateral incidental ends of judicature and as to the [...?] ends, with their counterparts the collateral ultimate ends, if the fulfilment of those ends is, in respect of its certainty, necessarily subjected to those contingencies which have their rest in psychological [...?], at any rate it finds out in its every [...?] fictitious /artificial/ laws set up in such a manner as to render it impossible.

Modifications the family system certainly requires to have undergone, in it can be rendered subservient /have been adapted/ to political purposes: but the modification /when as [...?] about,/ will be found to be rather in denomination than /names than/ in substance, the changes in denomination amounting to little more than what results of necessity from the enlargement of the field of action, from the encreased magnitude of the scale.