27 May 1807

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Letter V

1. Plan

III. J.B. Remedies

1. Maintenance of the course of decision in each judicature in a state of undeviating conformity to the declared will of the legislator - or, more shortly; maintenance of the authority of the sovereign legislature, viz. by prevention or correction of insubordinate decisions - 2. maintenance of the limits set to the jurisdiction of the several judicatures, {maintenance of the course of decision in the several subordinate judicatories within the limits of their respective lawful jurisdictions} - or more shortly, prevention or correction of usurpation of jurisdiction - these together with 3. maintenance of uniformity among judicial decisions, or in the course of judicial decision - are so many remedial operations, which present themselves of course, as corresponding to, and called for by, the nature of the several modifications of judicial injustice, list[?] above enumerated.

In these instances the immediately operating remedial instrument will be either reversal or modification, as above, viz. of this or that peccant[?] division of the Court below or else, where necessary (which on so high a level it is not apt to be) punishment; including, where applicable the imposition of the burthen of satisfaction, to the use of the party specially injured.