22 July 1804

Procedure

(3)

Enquiry Mode

Ch. Objection. No Jury

'.4. 3. No - Jury not complained of.

In an Equity Court a greater number of questions of fact - nay a greater number of distinguishable demands - are oftentimes decided upon without a Jury in the compass of a single cause than are decided upon with Juries in a Common Law Court in the compass of a whole term - in the compass of as many causes as are decided upon in a quarter of a year. I speak of the case of those Bills, in the course of which an Account of monies or goods received comes to be demanded at the hands of a Defendant: whether in the character of Executor, Administrator, Bailiff, Factor[?] or the like. So many items as there are on both sides of the account taken together, so many distinguishable demands liable on one side or other to be disputed: i.e.[?] many demands each of which is /would have been/ capable of serving for the matter of a suit at Common Law, to be decided upon by a Jury.