31 March 1805

Evidence

Securities

Ch. Engl. Law Summary

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It may occur as matter of surprize, as the score of indibility and, were as matter of objection, that the incompetency of the technical system, if thus compleat and radical as well as real, should in all that time /in the course of so many ages/ never been brought to view.

The surprize will be lessened at least if not removed - the objection removed altogether, if it be considered, that for the effectual execution /accomplishment/ of such a task an acquaintance /with the subject an acquaintance/ more than ordinarily minute and intimate was altogether necessary: that to penetrate the recesses of lawyercraft, no eye but that of a lawyer could have sufficed: that the labour of a whole life, if sufficient, was by no means more than sufficient for such a task: that when brought into competition with the ordinary objects of professional ambition /industry/, it presented on the one hand the /a/ increase of difficulty and labour, on the other hand a total abjuration[?] of every thing that to common [...?] is capable of entering into the composition of the matter of reward.