9 June 1805

Procedure [...?]

Note

Introd.

False Ends. Judge

Delay Causes

Delay Causes

I Unavoidable or Natural

II Factitures and Avoidable

Undue decision & Factors of Justice

Note 8 (a)

(a) In the rude ages /In these rude ages/ - (in which the germ of the existing systems of procedure first began to develop itself) how should any such suspicion have presented itself to men's minds?

For At the close of the 18 th century it had never presented itself to the penetrating mind of Adam Smith. He saw no harm in fees: neither in the character of a principle of corruption, nor yet in the character of an ill-rated /a miss-rated/ tax. To him it never occurred that the persons who derive the least benefit from the protection afforded by the courts of Justice, are those who are forced into them in the capacity of suitors. The protection which a suitor pays for, perhaps by all he is worth, non-suitors enjoy gratis. In Protest[?] against Law - Peace.