15 August 1804

Procedure

Evils Cause

Lawyers' interest

'2 points common

3. Adjudication etc.

The interest of the professional lawyer /lawyers/, and in particular of the Advocate is affected in again a different way by justice and injustice. With the abstract /by the real and/ justice or injustice of the decisions /proceedings/ his personal interest has no connection whatsoever. By the degree of reputation for justice possessed by the court in which he practices /in respect of the aggregate of his decisions/ his interest is served in the case in the interest of the judge in respect of personal reputation is served by it, as above. Whatever serves to increase the business of the court in which the advocate practices, gives /produces/ thereby an additional source for encrease of business to the Advocate.

But as far as [concerns] reputation is concerned /at stake/ - in such particular cause in which he is actually concerned /engaged/, so that the decision pronounced be given in his favour, his interest is still better served by the reputation of its injustice than by the reputation of its justice. In medicine the more desperate the case the greater the glory to the physician who effects /-----/ a cure /treats it with success and triumphs over the disease/. In the practice of the law, the more desperate the case, the greater the glory of the lawyer who treats it with success and triumphs over justice.

In p-----ty in some future age /time/ it will be matter of surprize to observe /observed not without surprize/, that in an age ---------- adorned in civilisation, and in a country claiming the ----- of her ----- above all other nations, a class of men should be found so far destitute it will be said of all regard for morality - of all sense of shame, as to find a source of undissembled self-complacency and exultation, to have rendered ------ ------ contributory to the production of injustice. Their surprize will be wrought to a ----- higher pitch, when they come to observe, in that very class the governing class, when further it was ------ to ----- /execute/ the law, but to ---- law for all the rest.