23 June 1805

Evidence

Introd

Ch. Non Notoriety

''.4 contracts

Such was the advice given by the man of law: and such was the advice in an evil day, complied /listened to/ and acted upon by the legislator. With an inconsiderable addition or [...?], it might have been truly and uniformly useful: for want of that addition, it has become pernicious to the community at large useful only to the insidious author of it, the man of law.

What was that addition? In the first place The taking the arrangements necessary for the rendering the invalidating provisions known

Neither of these under [...?] conditions being fulfilled, nor being rather taken that they should not be fulfilled, what was the result? the mischief was rather aggravated then alleviated by the pretended remedy: disappointment received [...?] of frequency: the only purpose answered was the sinister purpose of the men of law.

The breach of that one of the two conditions which regards notoriety is the only one of the two topics that belongs to the present place. Both will be considered at large so far as contracts are concerned, under the head of Pre-appointed evidence.