28 Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform To L d Grenville 2

Resolut. 13.

Interloc. Unapplicable

Give judgment for the Plff? - That would be to determine that the evidence /testimony/ if which it knows nothing, would had it been given, have been conclusive. Shall it simply suspend the final judgment, [...?] it to the Court below, one of the Chambers of Session, to cause the testimony yo be collected? This would be - not [...?] entertaining an Appeal against an interlocutory judgment alone, but something worse. The delay that would have been occasioned by the appeal against the interlocutor alone would it have been too great to be endurable? Here is that same delay produced[?], plus /with the addition of/ the delay intervening between the interlocutor and the final judgment. Say that the delay /interval/ between interlocutor and final judgment would be the same as whether the final judgment were pronounced before Appeal, or afterwards: if nothing be lost by the prohibition put upon the Appeal against the Interlocutor alone nothing in part[?] of dispatch would be lost, still nothing would be gained.

What if it be a case for examination in perfection[?] in memoriam, or for examination Scoticé Latina-Anglicé de bona esse?[?] At the time of calling for the evidence This witness on /at/ the point of death or expatriation: long before the House has given its Judgment (By the preceeding Resolution there is the new Chamber of Review for the cause to go through first[?] the testimony is given: Moreover the Table of Resolutions, if duly consulted might serve to prove not that it /nor let it/ should be altogether forgotten, that we are dying at all ages.

It is by an Interlocutor that provisional possession is deterred: but the effect of such delivery if made to a wrong person may be irreparable injury. Irreparable injury by waste: timber cut down and sold /the land stripped of its timber/: the house pulled down and the materials sold. Irreparable injury to person yet more serious. Woman delivered to a wrong husband: female orphan to a seducer instead of a proper guardian. When Virginia was put into the hands of the nomine[?] of Appius[?], it was or might have been by an Interlocutor.