29 Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform

To L d Grenville

Omissa

Pleadings

On this occasion, an implement of no mean use to the legislator would /might/ be a comparative Table of the names /in [...?]/ of civil actions or demands in use in the several systems of procedure with which we as Britons have most occasion to be acquainted. The number of columns in it would be four: one containing a set of natural denominations, as expressive as they could be made /as, whether[?] by selection or invention/, to serve as a common [...?] of explanation and standard of reference: another /the record/ containing the technical denominations in use in English

law /jurisprudence/, the third those in the [...?], the fourth those in the Scotch.

In so far as these demands can be made to wear a penal form[?], being demands for satisfaction on the score of some [...?] and thence of some transgression, already committed, list of natural denominations, or at least one attempt to make one is to be formed in one or both /other/ of two works already extant. + Introd [...?].

So far as they are incapable of wearing a penal form[?] as above described, they would remain yet to be composed. But the object of demand being in every case some sort of service, the list of civil demands would correspond with the list of services. Nor would he principle of division and arrangement be [...?] to [...?]: for as in he Tables /[...?]/ above attended to, Offences operating to the prejudice of individuals are distinguished according to the different respects in which man is susceptible of injury - offences striking against the person, against reputation, against property, against condition [...?] life, against person and reputation against person and property together, so in a way equally natural may services[?] acts operating to man's advantage.