7 Feb y 1807

Letter IV

Resolut. 6.7.8.9

Juries

1. delay

1. First as to delay. Let us observe /compare/ the quantities of it, absolute and thence proportional on a cause of the civil class[?] carried on in the way of natural procedure, and in a cause carried on in the way of technical procedure in that form, in which Jury trial in the first instance bears a part.

1. First as to delay. In some cases, whatever be the species /mode/ of procedure, quantity of delay necessary absolutely without limit /At present/ /The testimony of a/ A necessary witness is unobtainable and who shall say when it will be obtainable. But this /This however,/ is but one cause out of a number /multitude/. In the Table.

But leaving without notice, because without remedy, extraordinary cases which do not admitt of remedy, but let us turn /look/, my Lord, to the ordinary state of things.

To the cases which are of most frequent occurrence to those cases, it is, surely, that a system of practical arrangements ought be to be adopted with most care. Cases /Causes/ in comparison of which all others put together would be found (but if I err it is in your Lordship's power to know) would be found to compose a very small minority: in[?] case[?] of debts, taking the word not narrowed by technicalists, but in the extent given to it in the language of the people debt thus interpreted, cases of debt saving[?] exceptions to a small extent, within /constitute, and that [...?] the business of/ the jurisdiction of the Courts of Conscience.

Between appearance and judgment in a Court of Conscience ( as per Mr. Hutton p. │ │) duration of a cause

Minimum - minutes (per │ │) Maximum (p. │ │ ) Hours 2: - Minutes 120

Medium (p. │ │) in a day, say of 6 hours in an average

"p" of causes 130, to sure fractions say only 120 │

120 causes, in hours 6 * 6: = minutes 720: _by 120 -

makes per cause minutes............................ 5