9[?] Sept 1804

Evidence

Circumstantial

Ch. Exemplification

General [...?]

To give a detailed view of circumstantial evidence applicable to all cases - that is of evidentiary facts applicable to all sorts of principal fact, the existence of which is liable to come in question in judicature - would be a task of not altogether impracticable, at least not practicable within the limits in point of bulk room[?] to which a work of so extensive a range as the present work is necessarily confined. Under the head of Appropriate Evidence, there will be occasion to speak of the necessity of discarding the consideration of evidence /evidentiary facts/ in so far as the principal facts to which they respectively apply do not come in question but on the occasion of this or that particular species[?] of cause[?]: and of the evidence thereby designated a large portion /proportion/ will always be found to belong to the head of circumstantial evidence.