15 August 1804

Procedure

Evils Cause

ch. Lawyers' interest

'4 Different ranks

In different countries in degrees somewhat different, in all countries more or less, various causes have concurred in establishing a very close community of interest between those different ranks of men: between the judge on the one hand and the several subordinate classes of lawyer on the other.

In the existing order of things, the judge, as we have seen, the judge in his own person and character, is liable to be acted upon by a variety of sinister interests /in a variety of ways by sinister interest/, nor to be acted upon by some. But in so far as any community of interest subsists between him and any one /every one/ or more of those subordinate classes, the particular interest of that subordinate class becomes his. Connected in the way of interest with any such class he may be connected with it either singly in the way of sympathy, professional sympathy /----- interest/, or in the way of interest in the more confused and arbitrary sense of the word - viz: pecuniary or other self-regarding interest. Connected with all these classes by ties more or less close, he is sure to be in the way of sympathy: connected in the way of pecuniary interest he may be or not, according as the legislator has in this behalf been more or less indifferent - more or less attentive.