10 March 1808

Letter V

'.6 [...?] Ends of Justice

II. Ends correspondent and opposite to the /which/ ultimate collateral ends of justice /are correspondent and opposite/.

4. Imposition of burthensome obligations corresponding to and imposed by the administration of satisfaction, in so far as undue[?] [...?] by the administration of satisfaction as for wrong when no /[...?]/ wrong has been committed, or as the charges of some individual in the character of a defendant, on whom[?] whether by reason of his having had no part in the commission of the wrong, or on some other account, no such burthen ought to have ben imposed.

5. Imposition of burthensome obligation corresponding to and imposed by collation of rights, when undue: for instance by the act of a Judge [...?] by whom a [...?] who had no right has been admitted to a [...?] of /in/ the effects of a bankrupt or [...?] institute[?] to the prejudice of the several persons having right, and who[?] thereby are obliged to submitt to a correspondent less.

6. Administration of punishment when undue: viz. in the sum[?] of imputed delinquency: of delinquency, in some shape or other imputed to the defendant. In the Table of Offences, as above.

Of these evils it can not with proposity[?] be said that they are correspondent and opposite to the direct ends of justice; at least not to the direct ends of judicature: for, whatsoever in other respects might in the consequences failed[?] as these consequences would be to [...?] society, still of the particular ends now in question, the avoidance and prevention might much more [...?] and compleatly be provided for by the abolition then by the continuance of the objectives of judicature.