19 June 1805

Evidence

Note

Introd

Ch. Procedure Technical

''3. Mendacity encouragement

limited to parties

3 (a) continued

Extracts from [...?] de Manléon continued

And in the occasion of another cause (that of Simonote[?] against Le Roir) he concludes (1. 124.) "c'est vie [...?], que je suis combien dans ces sortes de causes, les parties sont se plaindre de ce pas les plaider illusionnes - Dû le [...?] Dumont[?] [...?], sans etude et sans art, apporter lui même avoir pieds ses douleurs melées de confiance et de crainte, s'il fairoit relentir ces [...?] ce cri si vrai de la nature qui penetre qui remue tens les crain; a ses larmes [...?] pentétre aux votres vous [...?] toute la justice toute la verité de sa cause. Et si le plus sage des rois reconnut a la [...?] qu'eut une femme qu'on ne lui enlevat sons fils, qu'elle en etoit la [...?], et la crainte qu'il vous feroit voir aujourd'hui qu'on ne lui donner les filles qui le reclamant vous verrier tous qu'il n'est point la veritable [...?]

Nor that on this or any other occasion he confesses what could scarcely be a secret either to him or to any other practicer in a French Court not to speak of other Courts) of justice, that the remedy against deception on the part of the Judge consists not merely in the eloquence of the parties in the character of Advocates in their own course, but much more in their inevitable veracity in the character of witnesses, when confronted with each other, and examined as to all the natural points in the cause, at the outset of it, face to face, in the presence of the Judge: as was the actual practice all the while in the Consular Courts of which there were many at that time in France

In the same Volume p.300 a list is given of the causes of vexation and delay to which a poor widow had been subjected for a space of two years, all of them factitious, all of them having mendacity, licenced, [...?] and unrepressible mendacity for their source: "[...?] conflits de jurisdiction deplacies, des resistances ouvertes aux ordres de la Cour, des abus d'[...?] pour arreter les assignations (notices to appear) des conventions tenuaires[?] ([...?]) des arrêts hardement surpris (by mendacious statements without oath examination or fear of punishment as in special pleading) sur requete au milieu d'une instance liée et contradictoire; (as if by Injunction Bill in Equity after the parties were at [...?] at Common Law) - ce n'est qu'une partie des maux[?] qu'elle avait a souffrir." This however was but a flea-bite: in that instance, the course of vexation had not at that time lasted above two years.