14 Oct. 1811

Evidence

Introd

Ch. Preappointed

Taken thus in its utmost latitude the following are the general topics under one or other of which whatsoever there may be occasion to say respecting the provisions proper to be made by the legislator for the creation or preservation of pre-appointed evidence will, it is supposed be found capable of being included Recordando, or 1. Subject matters to which it is applicable 2 Uses or advantages derivable from it, not forgetting the inconveniences to which it is liable to give birth, - on the occasion of the application made of it in these several subject matters or subjects of recordation. 3 Objects or ends proper to be kept in view in the application made of it to these several subjects. 4. Means by which those ends or objects may most effectually be attained.

As to the subject matters they seem capable of being reduced under the four following heads following: viz 1. Rules 2 Contracts taken in that largest sense in which not only Conveyances Engagements and Conveyances but Wills (i.e. Testaments) and all other operations of private and individual will by which under the authority of the legislator rights or obligations are either created, destroyed or modified 3 Miscellaneous matters of fact of a legally operative nature the knowledge of which may, serve - either in respect of their being of a legally operative nature as above /already/ described serve for the direction of the Judge, or on any other account for the information and guidance of the legislator or administrator as abovementioned in the character of so many of the materials of statistic science of so much of a stock of matter belonging to the statistic science.