3 July 1804

Procedure & Evidence

Ends

Ch.│ │ Vexation

'.2. Persons

As to the classes of persons liable to be subjected to vexation by the operations of procedure, if accidents and contingencies are taken into account they are as various and as extensive as the shapes in which vexation itself is capable of displaying itself /making its appearance/.

For the present purpose, they may be distinguished in the first place into

1. Persons /Individuals/ concerned in the suit in hand in different characters.

2. Third persons /individuals having no natural concern with the suit, but affected by it in one way or other by accident.

3. The public at large, in its collective capacity

The persons concerned in the suit will be comprehended under one or other of the following descriptions -

1. Parties:- Plff and Defendant

2. Witnesses - viz. extraneous witnesses not being parties

3. Judges /the Judge/

4. Subordinate Officers of justice judicial or purely ministerial

5. Agents: viz: Lawyers of different classes, the professional agents of the parties.