14 August 1804

Procedure

Evils Cause

Lawyers' interest

dilatoriness

2. Dilatoriness

By delay, separately considered the separate interest of the man of law is not served /promoted/ but rather disserved. The quantity of ------- extractable out of a given cause being given, the lawyer ---- ----- of time over which that ------- is about to be spread, the less is its present value.

But it /delay/ is the property (as will be seen) of delay /is naturally pregnant/ to give birth to incidents: incidents many of which not all will either naturally be, or will have been ------, productive each of its expence to the suitor, each of its profit to the man of law.

Moreover whatever state of things is productive of factitious and unnecessary delay, will in other ways be found productive of unnecessary and factitious expence, that part in the profit of which the lawyer will never be without his share. And é conversó no improvement (for the extension of ------- improvements is in so far true) could operate in removal of the factitious and unnecessary delay, that would not operate (operate of course and unless measures can be taken on purpose to prevent such its operation) in reduction of the aggregate mass of factitious and unnecessary expense, that part which included in the shape of profit goes into the pocket of the man of law.