18 March 1807

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Is it then The word frivolous being thus employed in /to form //to express/ the character of an attribute, to the word /of instead/ appeal the grounds and reason of the appeal be considered as designated /the object/ in the character of the correspondent subject, compared with /the expression when/ the same /above/ standard, will appear equally incompetent /ill qualified/ to lead to useful practice.

These grounds and reasons may be ever so frivolous ever so insifficient in point of reason to warrant the conclusion built upon them /drawn from them/, and on the part of the suitor on whose behalf they are employed yet be unaccompanied

with malâ fide. It may even happen that they are not so much as accompanied with temerity. For be they ever so frivolous what may happen is that they are the fruit of the majority of th suitors lawyers, and forasmuch as it not endurable where law is concerned that non-lawyers in general should hold themselves wise than the laws that is than the lawyers by whom a pretence of being declared they were made, or at least without imputation of rashness may a suitor be allowed to regard the wisdom of his own lawyer /of thre lawyer of his choice/ as superior to his own. On the other hand true it is, that the more frivolous the grounds, produced in appeal of an Appeal or any other legal application, appear in the eyes of him to whom it belongs to judge of them, the stronger will be his reason for regarding the application as accompanied /tinctured/ either with temerity or even with malâ fides.