27 Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform │ │ To L d Grenville

Facienda

II. Registration

Difference in the nature and importance of the heads calling for registration corresponding to the difference between species and species of cause. Demand for registration least diversified and extensive in the instance of the two sorts of causes that are beyond comparison of most frequent occurrence: demands among causes affecting /concerning/ property of many on the score of debts on the ordinary grounds such as goods sold and delivered, money lent &c: among causes affecting /concerning/ person, common assaults (among causes generally referred to the most highly or next most highly priced class prosecution for theft, or other modes /species/ of depredation /predation/ against strangers transgression with or without threats or violence commissible by strangers)

Examples of basis on which the demand for registration is apt to be most diversified, most extensive and most important - causes concerning property in immoveables, and causes concerning condition in life, domestic or public. Condition of Husband, Wife Father, Son, Daughter Mother, Apprentice, Member of this or that Corporation - Occupant of this or that office, Civil, Military Ecclesiastical, Testamentary[?] Executor or other Trustee, and so forth. In these too may be some examples of the cases in which the interest is not apt to spread from the immediate parties to third persons, connected or not connected with the parties by any special tie.

[...?] & sale[?] &c.