4 Jan y 1807

Scotch Reform To L d Grenville

Facienda

Juries why on appeal only

In causes not criminal (the only sort of causes here in question) Juries whether by possibility they could or could not be in practice, never are employed /called in/ except in an advanced stage of the cause, after a course of pleadings has been gone through, and other formalities performed in abundance. The consequence is that with the help of vacations and other unabridgeable intervals of factitious delay, be the actions of the demand ever so simple and the justice of it ever so indisputable, you can not obtain in the principal and most abundant scale of business the effect of it in so short a time as six months or twelve months.

Fill up with judicature these artificial gaps /receptacles/ of delay you might indeed * make a prodigious reduction of the quantity of factitious delay vexation and expense, and still make your use of Juries.

Still however you could never carry /apply/ the use of that institution to all causes in the first instance, without producing a large mass of factitious delay, vexation and expense, without any addition made to the security against misdecision even in the view, taken of the security by those whose attachment to it is most passionate.