13 June 1805

Evidence

Introd

Ch. Procedure Technical

''.2. Ends (of the Technical)

Whatever be the number of non-profit-yielding suits that might have taken /or have made to take/ place had they been profit-yielding suits, they operate therefore as exceptions to the several rules implied in the enumeration governing[?] the four preceding objects.

Unfortunately, ( viz: for mankind in general) in the sort of relation expressed by the correlative terms general rule, exception, there is something particular observable in the case to which they are here applied. In general, whatever be the number of individual instances /articles/ that have been taken out of /subtracted from/ the contents of the general rule by the exception or exceptions, the remainder is a number greater than that of the number contained in such exception or aggregate of exceptions. But in the present instance if from the number of articles comprized in the exception, the remainder will be not simply less but by many times less than the number so subtracted.

Fortunately on the other hand, (viz: for the man of law) whatever process, through the medium of the 2 d 3 d or 4 th of the above objects, conduces[?] to the fulfilment of the 1 st, conduces[?] also to that of the 5 th. In this as in every other branch of trade, (but in this more distinctly and necessarily than in any other) whatever contributes to raise the price of the goods, contributes in the same proportion to diminish the number of the customers. By the steady pursuit of that one object through the medium of these three, by that simple and as it were instinctive course, by the mere force of instinct, and without any expence in the shape of meditation /reflection/ /thought/ and contrivance, he attains the fifth object into the bargain: can in the form of a corollary, [...?] [...?] guiddance, as mathematicians say, in addition to [...?] in a more substantial shape.

Thus by the ingenuity and industry of the man of law /Judge/, every thing is adjusted and with the utmost surity the convenience of him[?] and his: and the only inconvenience is, that a certain portion of the species, in every country a large majority, are put out of the [...?] and under the oppression of the law.