Dec 1805

Evidence

Introd

Ch Ends [...?]

. Practical use

. Practical uses of the indication of the true ends.

Admitting /If it be admitted that/ the list above /here/ given of the ends of justice to be /in the character of a/ at once compleat and correct, and that the course of procedure /the system of/ ought exclusively to be directed to the attainment /accomplishment/ of the ends of justice divers results, alike simple and important, will ensue.

1. That For any arrangements that may any where have been proposed in relation to the system of procedure, no reason can ever be given, no consideration, that can prefer any just claim to be considered in the light of a reason, can be brought to view, that does not consist in the indication of the conducement[?], of the arrangement in question to some one or more of those several ends /objects/.

2. That on this account in any work that can profit any just claim to be considered as exhibiting a just view of the rationale of procedure, the mention of these several ends must be successive[?] /continual/, presenting itself at almost every page.

3. Thus The reader therefore, if it happens to him to prefer and utility to all other considerations, will neither be surprized or offended at the continual reference which in the course of the present work he will find made to these leading objects, nor therefore to the continual repetition and monotony which are the inseparable accompaniments /[...?]/ /result/ of a methodical and ever /throughout/ consistent adherence to a Several number /short list/ of leading /fundamental/ principles and consequently leading terms

4. In no other work as yet extant has any such compleat enumeration been made or attempted to be made: nor in particular in any work that has ever issued from the few of any professor either of Roman or of English law.