17 June 1804

Procedure

6 (3)

Ends

Ch.1

'.2. general Ends

Taken is all its several branches, the reduction of this collateral mass of evil to its least dimensions, /may be stated/ will constitute what may be termed the collateral end - the collateral general end - of the system of procedure. Collateral end expressed in brief reducing to its minimum the evil producible by the [...?] of the main end.

That whatsoever be its importance, absolute or comparative, it is not the main end - that it forms no part of the main end - and therefore ought not to be confounded with the main end, appears manifestly /plainly/ from this simple consideration: viz: that the most effectual end that veery[?] compleatly effectual as well as only effectual mode of compassing it would be to abolish /do away/ the system of procedure altogether - to have no system of procedure at all: to leave the substantive branch of the law to support itself - that is for want of the necessary support from the adjective to perish by itself: if there were no prosecutions, none of that mischief would exist, of which, over and above the mischief meant to be produced by them respectively, all prosecutions are productive.