16 May 1807

Judicial Injustice

As to the last object - viz. periodical collection of returns indicative of the state of judicature in the several subordinate courts, nearly as this object is connected with the main objects, prevention of misdecision and of unnecessary delay, vexation and expence, no such entire coincidence it is evident takes place in this instance as in the two former ones. For how necessary soever it may be to the superintending judicature to know what the decisions and other proceedings of the several subordinate judicatures are, in order to prevent ultimate misdecision from taking place in their respectivity, yet the knowing what a decision is, and the taking measures for preventing it, being carried into execution in the event of its being deemed erroneous, are operations distinct enough from each other.