14 August 1804

Procedure

Evils causes

False Ends

Lawyers' interest

Points common

'2. Points in which the private interest of lawyers coincides with the public interest /the interest of the community/.

The points in which the private interest of lawyers coincides with that of the community at large correspond to /consist in/ the /those/ //much of the// evils opposite to the ends of justice in /by/ which this particular class has its share /is prejudiced/ as well as the other classes - in which the mischief to suitors extends itself to men of law. These are 1. Failure of justice in so far as it has non-demand for its cause.

In the case /cases/ this operation of an exemplifying a failure of justice for want of judicial demand, to speak of such an evil /the evil in question/ as one in which /by which the interest of/ the man of law as well as /that of/ the justice has an interest /------ to prejudice/ - in which the man of law as well as the public has its share, a supposition /--- supposition/ tacitly involved, and without which the proposition is not true, is - that in the causes which /such that ought to/ have been brought in, and would have been brought in had it not been for the ancedant(?) arrangements which intervened to shut the door of justice the man of law would have been called in, and reaped his profit from them as for the rest /those others/ that are not prevented from taking place. 2. That the aggregate of the profit which on that supposition he would have drawn from this source would have been such as to extend the advantage accruing to him as above from those arrangements /the influence of those causes/ by which the institution /commencement/ of the suits in question have been prevented.