13 June 1805

Evidence

Introd

Ch. Procedure Technical

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3. Number of suits, quantum of profit from each operation and instrument, given as before; also number of operations and instruments together, the aggregate of profit will be as the length of each operation or instruments.

Third object - increasing the length of each such operation and of each such instrument

4. As often as any additional hand can be introduced into the business, to whom any operation can be /is/ given to perform which without him would not have been performed, or instrument made which without him would not have been made, an addition is made to the aggregate of operations and instruments.

Fourth object - increasing the number of different hands /hands/ having different employments, employed in the business of procedure.

Thus far, to avoid complication and embarrassment, a supposition has all along, though tacitly made, viz: that of the whole number of suits, each /from/ which, number and length of operations given, profit will be extractable, and to the same amount. But as in every community there will always be a considerable number of individuals, from whom, they /[...?]/ enjoying throughout the whole course of their lives little more or no more than a bare subsistence, no profit at all or none that would be worth earning at the price of the necessary labour, could by possibility be extracted, hence, from the number of suits which it is the interest of the man of law to see or even to take place, must be excepted and struck out the whole number and proportion of these non-profit-yielding, these unprofitable suits.

The interest of his fortune /His pecuniary interest/ calls upon him to secure up to a maximum the number of profit-yielding suits: the interest of his case calls upon him to carve down to a minimum the number of non-profit-yielding suits.

Fifth object - diminishing the number of non-profit-yielding suits.