14 Febr y 1807

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Letter IV

Resolut. 6.7.8.9

Juries

2. Next as to ease. ││ It rids them of all causes that do not afford this profit: a vast majority: giving to Judges ease, to suitors - no, my Lord:- to the people who ought to have been and are not admitted in the character of suitors, denial of justice.

And this, without depriving them of /leaving to them notwithstanding/ a prodigious number of causes in which /justice administer/ on the terms in which it is administered, justice is much worse, so far as individual parties are concerned than denial of justice: causes in which not to speak of the ten fold /ten or twenty fold/ loss of him who is said to gain /lose/ the cause, even the gainer loses, the gainers and only real gainers are the lawyers. /Judge and C o his[?] junior[?] partners/

True it is, that under the existing technical system, the sum in demand being given say 40', say twice ,40, misdecision to the prejudice of the plaintiff's side is a great deal worse than simple denial of justice! Worse:-yes.: but what is it that makes it so? It is the technical system itself, with its manufactured mass of delay, vexation and expense. (In the account here supposed the difference therefore has no place on the side of the natural system.) In the supposed case, the technical system is vanished: the natural has every where taken its place.