10 Feb y 1807

Letter IV

Resolut. 6.7.8.9

Juries

1 Delay

And now my Lord, I will venture to submit to your Lordship a few points of impression as not altogether unworthy of Your Lordships notice. /I am/ Sorry I am that in most of them I have nothing better to offer than so many vague approximations. Had my power been equal to my will many and many years ago they would all of them have been reduced to certainty

1. Delay quantities of it absolute , and thence[?] proportional as between a cause carried on in the way of natural procedure, and technical procedure in civil causes in that in that form in /of/ which Jury trial [...?] [...?] [...?]

Ah but, says some learned Lord or Gentleman you are confounding great with small. You are supposing the greatest cause, so it be but a cause of debt, to require no more time to do justice to it than one of your minimum[?] causes, di quibus lex non curat.

My Lord, if on the putting causes of all [...?] together thus in hotchpot, there be really any error, I will venture to set it down among the errors which to the present purpose are not worth regarding. But if this be again error upon error,

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