[...?] April 1804

Evidence

Introd. Exclusion[?]

Ch. [...?] Non-homologation

In every country more or less such has to all appearance been the policy /object/ - such at any rate has been the result. With or without determinate design no where has it been carried to a greater /so great an/ extent, no where with such prodigious // and almost compleat effect, as in the domain /field/ of English law.

No where else has the rule of action been left to so vast an extent in the state of jurisprudential law: no where has the legislator given himself less trouble to draw /take/ it out of that state /corrupt and disgraceful state/. No where has the exertions made to deceive the people in so essential a point, and to cause this [...?] /sink/ of depravity to be taken for a source of unrivalled excellence been so busy or so successful.

No where else has legislator so compleatly and avowedly resigned himself /his power/ into the hands of the men of law. No where else, [as often as any little attempt is made an amendment] is it a question so regularly put, or so premptory in its effects when put - has your proposition the approbation and assistance of the gentlemen of the law robe. No where else is the policy /maxim/ so openly avowed or so steadily adhered to - never to presume to seek any report give to the sheepfold[?] any the least, /considerable/ repair, that has not been planned or at least compleatly approved of by the wolves.

Hoc est /esit/ quam [...? ...? ...? ...?], said a lawyer of former days speaking of an arrangement by which the / / would have been placed under the guardianship of the / /. But the / / is by no means so compleatly under the power and at the mercy of the / / as the subject in his character /by the imbecility and negligence of the legislator/ of suitor has been given up in to the power, and abandoned to the mercy of the man of law. The / / has /sees/ over him the man of law: whose interest it is while both are fleeced, that neither shall be devoured. The man of law has nobody above him but the legislator: the legislator, who to whom so ever else he may be awake has been in use for ages to ? to the man of law.

Who vesp ? like may know to whom to sleep, and to whom to be awake: but who