21 June 1807

(3)

Letter V

II. Litigation

III. Def t. malâ fide

2. Even when already, before suit commenced, the Defendant has lodged his property in one of these asylums provided for the security of property against justice of safe and opulent swindlers, it will seldom be in the power of the plaintiff to succeed, nor will he frequently have any adequate inducement for so much as engaging in any such intricate and complicated research as that of the different proportions in which the defendant's property is invested in the different shapes of which it is susceptible, and the probability of his having at the same time the power and the determined will to take advantage of the protection afforded by swindling-licence thus annext to these several shapes.