13 June 1805

Evidence

Introd

Ch. Procedure Technical

''.2. Ends of the Technical

The final cause of the natural system of procedure is the fulfilment of the several ends of justice.

The first cause of the technical system of procedure is the promoting in every possible shape the personal advantage of the Judge and his associates.

To delineate the author of the plan of /of the course actually pursued by/ the system /For determining a person to a certain degree of correctness/ nothing more is necessary than to /we need therefore but to/ investigation and note down the results under the [...?] of which the interest of a man in the situation of the man of law will /would/ necessarily had him to wish to see come to pass: in other words, among the evils opposite to the ends of justice to note down such as are be under productive of profit to himself /personal advantage/, and the substance of the several arrangements which in the character of men's promise to be conducive to the accomplishment of these sinister ends.

1 Desirable result or end or objects of the man of law collected under one general denomination and thence placed in the most general point of view - extracting in every shape the maximum /aggregate/ of profit extractable from the whole number of suits of all sorts springing up of themselves or producible in the community in question within the /a/ given space of time.

2 The number of suits being given, and the quantum of profit extractable from each operation of a /and [...?]/ given length and from each instrument of a given length being given, the quantum of profit extractable from the aggregate of suits will be as the number of operations and instruments in each suit. Second object increasing the number of operations performed and of instruments made and uttered on the occasion /in the course/ of the aggregate of suits.