3 March 1804

Evidence

Securities

Ch. Procedure Technical

Falshood encouraged by

Law Agents for want of

confrontation

 After stating the power[?] of the law arising clearly out of the facts, and so no [...?] taken.

From the hands of the advising Counsel, after returning through those of the Attorney, the statement /business/ goes into the hands o a third sort of lawyer, called a Special Pleader: and from him is bespoken, what is called a Declaration - a claim adapted to the facts so stated, and either explicitly or implicitly continuing the allegations requisite to the support of such claim - allegations by which, though in a general form, the substance of these facts is reasserted /again asserted/. At this stage at any rate the responsibility would be compleatly gone, if that which was compleatly gone already could be more than gone. With the bulk of the statement or any part of it the Special Pleader has no more /concern/ to do, than the ironmonger who sells a hatchet has with the sobriety of the smelter who helped to extract the iron from the ore.