11 Feb y 1808

Homologation necessary

 Speak as to the mode by directing[?] Offices

But though it is not possible for Scotland to import /derive/ a set of forms of pleading impure and putilated[?] /corrupt/ source, nor therefore to obtain by inference and fiction a correspondent portion of substantive law in the state of jurisprudential law, what is altogether possible is that it should receive a set of forms of pleading with a /the/ correspondent portion of substantive law in the order and in the state prescribed by utility and common sense: viz. in the first place a portion of substantive law in /to/ the requisite extent, and thereupon in the next place, a set of forms of pleading deduced from /correspondent to/, and moulded upon, that portion of substantive law: in the first place the rule of action, the law itself; and then a set of instruments expressive of the mode, in the several measures[?] of life, to the extent of the portion of the field of law covered by such portions of substantive law, the execution of the commands expressed by that portion of substantive law, the fulfilment of the engagement taken by it, may[?] /shall/ be demanded.