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1821 Decr 6

Codification Proposal

?.5. Draughtman Single

Aristocrat and Lawyers interest

Relation between the Aristocrat's sinister interest and the Lawyer's sinister interest

It is the lawyers interest that the number of such lawsuits such as afford lawyers profit should be at a maximum /as many as possible/: and that the most profitable be the most numerous: it is the same time his interest /and/ that of those that afford no lawyers profit the number be a minimum /be as few as possible/, the result of them to the lawyers being burthen without compensation /uncompensated/.

Thus [?] [...?] is [?] The lawyers interest. The wealthy Aristocrat's interest is much diveded. In every case in which he is in the right and has an Aristocrat for his adversary it is his interest that the sum of expence on his part, vexation on his part and delay be as small as possible. But if he be in the wrong and has an Aristocrat for his adversary, much more if he has a man much [...?] in pecuniary circumstances for his adversary, it is his interest that on the adversarys side the expence be as great as possible: that so the adversary may be disabled or deterred from resistance.

Upon the whole the sinister interest of the opulent Aristocrat coincides in this part of the field with that of the lawyer: for as to the evil that may result to himself from the factitious expence vexation and delay, a man's /the natural/ confidence in his own good fortune represents it to him as a rare casualty: which as towards all those, the [...?] of whose circumstances would disable or deter them from resisting him, he beholds, in the aggregate of that mass of [...?] an instrument of power by which he is enabled /constituted/ to tyrannise over all who are so circumstanced, be the multitude of them ever so great.