15 August 1804

Procedure

Evils Cause

ch. Lawyers' interest

'2 points common

The interest /advantage/ which the man of law reaps /possesses/ /has/ in the avoidance of the evil termed the evil of wrongful decision is altogether equivocal and -----able. If in this or that case, in this or that state of things it is his interest that the actual course of decision should be conformable to the dictates of genuine and real justice, in this or that other case - in this or that other state of things, his interest is directly affected: it is disserved by justice, it is served /promoted/ by injustice.

Considered in the connection /relation to/ whether several of those results which have already been stated in the character of causes of wrongful decision, and thence causes of injustice, the limit of his interest is not at all equivocal - not in any degree liable /exposed/ to complaint or dispute. Delay has already been shown to be one cause of wrongful decision though not in ---- ---- particular instance a necessary one: expence, another; vexation, juridical vexation, another: non-notoriety including uncertainty of the law and thence non------- and non-homologation, in one point of view, another. Non-notoriety and ------- of the law considered in another point of view though not causes /a cause/ of wrongful decision yet a cause of transgression on the part of non-lawyers and thence of ----- prosecution sources of -------- to the man of law.

The same circumstances by being causes of non-demand and thence ------- of ------ have moreover been shown to be causes and ---- in many cases necessary ones of ----- of justice and thence injustice from that source.

Upon a general /the whole/ survey it appears that the personal interest of the man of law is but probably and equivocally and ------ benefitted by justice: and that in a great variety and ----- of cases it receives /will naturally receive/ a very decided and sufficiently manifest benefit from injustice.