29 Mar. 1805

Evidence

Securities

Ch. Procedure technical

The use of the principles of registration, as applied to this subject /occasion/, the advantage derivable from it, the sort of security held not by it, is almost too obvious to heed /bear/ mentioning. Should deception and consequent misdecision run /be suspected of running/ in any [...?] stream from any of these supposed /branch of the apprehended/ sources, measures may be taken for remedying the mischief at all times and at /in/ its [...?] stage.

A moderate share of reflection however, applying to the state of things here in question, the universal and unchangeable principles of human nature, would have been sufficient for the discovery[?] to shew, that any such conception could not but be for the most part an erroneous one. That of /with/ the man of law, as of every other sort of man, on this occasion as on every other sort of occasion, in proportion to the opportunity the end and object aimed at will be the advancement of his own particular interest: that if between his interest, apparent as well as real /in his own conception as well as in reality, on the one hand/, and the interest of the suitor as such, in other words the interests of justice, on the other, the coincidence had been constant and compleat, his pursuit of the ends of justice /adherence to the interests of justice/ would have been /be/ proportionably faithful, and except so far as any duration might have been produced by an error in judgment, the practice observed by him and the arrangements taken by him on every such occasion would have been bonâ fide directed towards their professed end: on the contrary that of on any occasion any contrarity should happen to manifest itself between the two distinguishable [...?], the interests of justice would, of course, to the full extent of the contrarity be sacrificed and [counteracted.] iniquity organised instead of justice.