24 March 1805

Evidence

Securities

Ch. Procedure Technical

Thus it is that the man of law possessing /comprizing/ in his own breast every endowment every condition necessary to the accomplishment of the work of mischief and injustice /deeds of darkness/, inclination, power, appropriate knowledge, has on different occasions pursued /organized/ the game of injustice through roads somewhat different: for the sake of profit /thus[?] proportionably attached/, he has created in factitious and abundant masses the mischief of expence vexation and delay: and thus he has travelled /laboured/ in opposition to the collateral end o justice. For the sake of the profit to be extracted in a second /an expected subsequent/ suit, he has decided against /the merits that is against/ justice in a first suit /preceding one/, and thus he has run counter to the direct end of justice. In the [...?] hope of a second suit by the substitution of [...?] to the refuted evidence - for this cause, or perhaps through mere indifference giving way to the first impulse, by excluding evidence he has excluded justice: and thus for mere want of thought, as the [...?] whistled he has run counter to the same ends and stumbled upon injustice. Less[?] for want of thought, as there /above/ by dint of thought, he has run counter to the same ends.