11 Feb y 1808

Homologation necessary

As The system of pleading at present in case under English law, constitutes a part of the regular that is the technical and dilatory system of procedure, to an English lawyer it would naturally seem of course that the application of any thing that could with propriety come under the denomination of a system of pleading would be attended as of necessity and of course with a mass of delay vexation and expence similar if not altogether equal to that which has place under that same technical system.

But in truth a system of pleading, if properly constructed, and thence moulded upon: properly framed body of substantive law councils altogether as well with /is as compleatly adapted to/ the natural system of procedure as any system of pleading can possibly be to the technical. It stands in no degree dependent in any of those delays vexations and expences of which the technical system is composed.

The parties being present in the face of each other and of the Judge, the /to enable the/ train[?] of pleading to have run out its length will require no greater length of time than to carry a suit for the same object through the forms of a Court of Natural Procedure such as are already on use - a /a Scotch/ Small debt Court or an English Court of Conscience.