14 August 1804

Procedure

False Ends

Points adverse

dilatoriness

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There is another ------, less obvious but not less real in which the man of law has an interest in the production of delay - unnecessary and factitious delay - and that is ease personal ease and relaxation. If without any diminution or without any material /adequate/ diminution in the total mass /sum total/ of extractable ------, certain portions of the year can be set apart in which the man of law shall be free from labour, so much of this time of comfort and amusement as can be created, in so far the interest of the man of law must it is evident be served. But served in this way it is not profitable it should be , but at the expense of justice. The one or other party, always and frequently to both all delay is injustice while it lasts. + While the time of the lawyer /man of law/ is filled with amusement, the time of the injured suitor is filled with bitterness. The interest which the man of law has in the quantity of delay thus produced, is therefore beyond dispute a sinister interest: an interest to which so far as it prevails, the interest of the community is made a sacrifice.

Nothing but overgrown, unrestricted and ------ power, too confident in its own stability to vouchsafe ears to listen to the wailings of the miserable oppressed could ever have thought of giving /------ to give/ at the expense of all mankind a moments pampered repose to the well /richly/ paid labours of the man of law. The physician has not such play-time: even the priest, how great soever and how unequal the indulgence he -------/which in sum ---------/ of the ---- ----, the ----- of the physician's /medical/ practice are based in the same grave.

---- as such periodically greater /------/ or ------- indulgence as the man of law in more --- ----- ------ been ashamed to give himself.

+ Suprà B.L.Ch.