15 August 1804

Procedure

Lawyers' interest

'2 Points common

2. ------ of justice by wrongful decision

1. judge

In one case the personal interest of the judge in other respects, and in particularly in respect of pecuniary circumstances well defined /more or less/ upon less reputation - will be served by the goodness of his reputation - will be disserved by the badness of his reputation - even in cases where the ----- and degree of disservitude is far from rising so high as to endanger his security against punishment. This case is - where there are two or any greater number of courts to each of which one and the same cause is capable of being brought at the option of one or other of the parties, and especially of the instrument of the judge ---- and full with the number of cause brought into his court. In the case here supposed there is a manifest /the state of things //nature of the case// creates a natural/ competition, between court and court, for endowment(?) of instrument(?) be at stake at any rate for the praise of justice and bearer of good judication. When instrument(?) is at stake, to an amount worth regarding, the interest is obvious, the competition keen. ------ his ---- instrument is at stake, the interest will be ------ - the competition more or less ------ and perceptible, according to as the course of judicial proceedings is more or less public, and the attention paid to it more or less general and anxious /and general/: on the part of the individual according to the comparative strength of ----- and ------ in his mind the love of reputation and the love of ease.