24 April 1808

Reasons for the Work

But in regard to the communications above mentioned viz. the designation of the service demanded, and that of the efficient cause of the right to such service, the application of instruments of demand expressed by pre-established forms is not either in point of propriety or practicability confined to the cases that happen to have been covered by the already established forms more than to any of those to which that sort of covering happens not to have been extended.

In the substantive part of the rule of action the demand for these notifications is in point of reason and utility and practicability all-pervading: pervading in its whole extent the field of law.

So likewise in the system of pleading is the demand for the corresponding notifications to be conveyed in every instance by the instrument of demand.