5 July 1804

Procedure & Evidence

Evils causes

3d order

'.2 Wrongful decision to Def.

II. Wrongful Decision to the prejudice of the Defendant Immediate causes of this evil.

I. Natural causes the same as in case of Wrongful Decision to the prejudice of the plff's side.

II. So likewise, the negative among the factitious causes among the factitious causes, those of the negative stamp.

III. So likewise those of the positive stamp; with the exception of no. 3 and 4. Laws authorizing pardon without reason assigned, whether so ------, or ----- by the power of fabricating causes of nullity. But in this case /---/ the exception extends not to non-penal cases: ---- in these the defendant as well as the demandant is liable to be prejudiced by such fabricated causes of nullity, although in these cases the the injustice is more apt to fall on the demandant's side than on the defendant's.