10 April 1805

Evidence

Securities

Ch. Procedure Technical

''.1. Definition

Ch. Of the Technical System of Procedure

''.1.

Under the common denomination /name/ of technical procedure let us comprehend, once for all, every system of procedure, from which the characteristic /distinguishing/ features of the natural system, as above delineated, are excluded: - which is as much as to say, every system which has been the work of lawyers /derives its existence from the power and industry of professional lawyers/.

Having had for its efficient cause the powers of lawyers - a virtual though unavowed and scarce perceived power of legislation, - committed to them by the [...?] or rather abandoned to them by the negligence and imbecillity of the rightful /competent/ legislator, it would of course, and in virtue of the /a/ universally prevalent principles of human nature, have for its object, the promotion /furtherance/ of the interest - the common interest - of the persons employed in the /its/ construction of it. of the possessors of that power, for its final cause the profit capable of being extracted from it, for its final cause.