9 Jan y 1808

Notes to Table VIII. Grievance and Remedy Table.

Notes

(a) (Grievance). In the technical language of the English Spiritual and Admiralty Courts, any act which being the act of a judicatory is by a party litigant considered as productive of injustice to his prejudice, is in that respect termed a grievance.

(b) The grievances, mischiefs, or evils here distinguished being correspondent and opposite to so many distinguishable ends of justice - in other words, the ends of justice consisting in the avoidance, or prevention, of so many mischiefs of which a judicatory is liable to be either the theatre or the source - this Table may, to a certain extent, be considered as exhibition and illustration of the several ends of justice.

Of the judicial grievances or mischiefs for which, as not being respectively susceptible of any corresponding remedy, applicable by the hand of a Judge acting as such, no place could be found in this Table, those which require to be distinguished for any practical purpose, may, it is supposed be thus enumerated /denominated./

In the case of a grievance, the only good purpose to be answered by the indication of it is the promoting the application of an efficient remedy. Distinction, in regard to the nature of the remedy, requires therefore correspondent distinction in the indication given of the grievance.