[...?] Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform To L d 1806 + (1

Resolut. 15

Extracts

Resolution 15 th: That all Extracts, in every Court, Superior and inferior, be abolished or diminished, as far as it shall be found possible; and that for the execution of any decree of appealing therefrom, it shall in all Cases be sufficient that there be an Exemplification, signed by the Clerk of Court, containing the Summons, Petition, or other Writ by which the Cause was brought into Court, together with the Defence, and the different Interlocutors, and final Judgement of the Court, with such other Parts of the Proceedings only as it may be found indispensably necessary to include in such Exemplification

To the principlee of this resolution considered as declaration of in general terms of the [...?] of the House of Lords for the abolition of the extortion practised on this ground there can be nothing to be said but in the way of eulogy /applause and gratitude/: of the degree of efficiency likely /intended/ to be given to it by the local operators, suspicious persons themselves are presented even upon the face of it.

Extraction of the deceit, my Lord, it may or may not have fallen in your Lordships way to observe is from an [...?] of the French School: It /the practise which is as much as to say the extortion/ sprang up in the original Roman School: it swelled like an avalanche in its passage from Rome to Edinburgh by way of /viâ/ Paris. In France The power of adding distress to distress, at the will of the practicers[?], under the notice of administering justice, was, we all know /as every body knows/ an object of public sale: for extorting the money /matter of extortion/ out of the pockets of the suitor, French Judges, like /as well as/ English and Scotch had many engines /[...?]-[...?]/ but this was the most productive.