12 Jan y 1807

To L Grenville

Facienda[?]

Outline

After Appeal to Jury?

Borough Courts, and the Courts of General Sessions held by Justices of the Peace, in the character of Small Debt Courts, to remain on their present footing: always understood that the mode of procedure pursued in the Borough Courts is - or if not, at present shall be, the natural mode, as that pursued in the aforesaid Small debt Courts.

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By a provision to this effect, the objection of unnecessary innovation, and the mischief of depriving particular /so many/ /the country/ districts of so many (experienced) benefits which probably have been rendered dear by experience, will be avoided: and at the same time, to the extent of these limited jurisdictions the benefit of competition will be obtained.

In the case of the Small Debt Justice of Peace Courts, the intervals between Sessions and Sessions, in other words the intervals of denial of justice /times during which justice is denied/ being so long, the probability seems to be, that after such a modification of the Sheriffs Courts as is proposed, the resort to them would cease. Who that could get justice the next day would wait one, two or three months for it?