29 April 1804

Evidence

After Adduction and Identification

Forthcomingness.

Ch. 3. Means physical

§ 11. 10. Maintenance

Maintenance - alimentation

11. Maintenance, including alimentation: alimentation, the maintenance of an object of the class of animals, more especially of of the class of human creatures. Maintenance is a process incident by accident, to detention, to caption, to detention, to commitment to sequestration. By maintenance I understand /is to be understood/ the preserving the object /the source of the evidence/ from deposition, and as much as may be from deterioration: from deposition in the character of a source evidence, to prevent deposition of the evidence: from deposition in its own[?] character, to prevent vexation and expense: to prevent vexation where undue, to prevent it, by transferring the expense from the quarter in which it would be undue to the quarter in which it is due.

This operation where the performance of it becomes necessary, viz to prevent the deposition of the evidence, makes an addition more or less considerable, but naturally very considerable, to the difficulty and vexation attached to the [...?] of the end in view - the preservation of the evidence. Where the end can equally be obtained by detention on the spot the expense and vexation of maintenance will in general be considerably less, than where adduction and sequestration are /is resorted to must be employed.