27 June 1804

Procedure

Evils causes

Ch.1 Generalia

'3. Remediable and irremediable

If in English law in all cases of personal /corporal/ injury the right to satisfaction has been denied to the co-injured /---ly injured/ /-----atively - injured/ and surviving relations, and in the most obvious cases even to the individual whose body has borne the burthen of the injury, it is because in this as well as /on this as well as other/ so many other instances /grounds/, English lawyers /the founders of the English law/, with /to/ the perfect contentment and ratification of their successors, have, by the dint of the viginti annorum lucubrationes, seconded by a most happy and imperturbable insensibility to the failings of humanity, contrived to sink themselves below the level of the Hotentots and New Zealanders /most barbarous of their progenitors/.

So again in the case of the author of any such injury, from which by a supposition but too frequently verified let us suppose a profit of the pecuniary kind to accrue to his benefit death, which /when/, in the former case deprived /are seen depriving/ the sufferer of receiving satisfaction, may at any time withdraw the wrongdoer out of the rack of punishment. But if instead of having the relatives of the criminal to fasten[?] upon the profit /fruit/ of the crime, the amount of it, with or without addition, according to the nature of the case be impounded by the law /taken into the hands of justice/, for the benefit of the sufferer or his representatives - the sum /aggregate/ of the mischief flowing naturally from the cause /offence/ will in this case also be reduced proportionately.