12 June 1805

Procedure Evidence

Note

Introd

Ch. Procedure Natural

''. Confront. Object n to [...?]

 Addn Execution[?] of attendance [...?]

For the purpose by [...?] up /destroying or [...?]/ local judicature

Note (a) to p.3.

(a) In England, another answer, in no better character indeed than that of an argumentum ad hominum[?], but in that character an [...?] one /a faulty imperfect one and most appalling one/ /rather an/ might be offered /presented/ /submitted/ to an English Judge. You yourself as often as you had your name, for the purpose of giving commencement to a suit, address yourself by a written notice presented in the name of the King /the name of your King/ to the defendant, calling upon him in as explicit and pointed terms as the language can furnish /has to furnish you/, to appear before you in your Court: to appear not simply to appear (lest that according to the distorted[?] &[?] deceptitious language to which your predecessors have given currence[?] should be construed to mean not to appear but to send by some other person to appear by Attorney) not simply to appear but to appear personally to appear in person: and the better to confer this command you back it with the threat of a specific punishment, a pecuniary penalty to the amount of

100.