28 Jan y 1808

II Appeals

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To sell a twelvemonths factitious delay to every man that will pay the price, is to sell to every dishonest man in condition of his standing suit and so becoming and remaining defendant, a twelvemonth's interest upon the sum of money representative of whatsoever portion of another man's /the plaintiff's/ property he has contrived to get into his hands. In the three English intermediate Chambers of Review, the King's Bench, when sitting over the Common Pleas, the Exchequer Chamber which sits over the King's Bench, and the Exchequer Chamber which sits over the Exchequer, may be seen so many markets overt in which factitious delay has for ages been sold, and in the Year 1798, + not to speak of present /posterior/ times continued to be sold, in pieces of a years /twelvemonth's/ length more or less: the property of the injured plaintiff /in the character of plaintiffs/, to as many wrongdoers as /to whom/, on striking a ballance between profit /an account taken of profit/ and loss, it might happen to see more to gain in the shape of interest of money, than to lose in the shape of costs.

In one of the Tables that accompany these sheets, Your Lordship may see the quantity of the article sold in the three shapes[?] in the three years ending 1797, together with the amount of the dividend received into the pockets of the Master manufacturers, the managing partners of the great commercial company composed of Lawyers and distinct[?] /Judges, other official lawyers, professional/ litigants.

 Add further reference to Ellenboro and Mansfield.

+ 27 Report of Finance Committee A o 1798.