[...?] April 1807

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Lawyers judged

Letter 5

Frauds and fellow-subjects

The necessity of reform respecting the administration of civil justice in Scotland is admitted on all hands.

Various plans on that subject are now before you

My own among the rest

My own [...?] upon two main points /proposals //propositions/:

1. The substitution for the natural system /mass //form[?]/ of procedure, as exemplified in the Small Debts Courts, to the technical system of procedure, or pursued in the regular Courts in general and in particular in the Court of Session

2. The reducing the whole body of Scotch law, and in particular the civil branch in particular, by the authority of Parliament, from its present debateable state /state of darkness/, without any certain words belonging to it, to the state of statutory, or as it is sometimes called written law.