28 April 1808

§.2.

I. Reasons for the Work

§.2. State Ground of Demand.

9. To a person making application in the character of demandant (or say plaintiff) no such judicial service can ever be rendered by a Judge, but at the charge of some other person, who, in so far as he either seeks to exempt himself from such burthen, or, is considered as about to be so, becomes subjected to it, is termed a defendant.

10. On no man ought any burthen to be imposed by a Judge without sufficient reason: i.e. unless to the judicial service by which such burthen would be imposed on the Defendant the demandant has a just right, which he can not have unless his assumed right has a legally sufficient efficient cause.