28 April 1808

J.B. to H. of Commons

§.3

I. Reasons for the Work

§.3. Demand includes Defence

§.2. In the instrument of demand ought to be included, viz. in the way of designation, a designation of all possible grounds or efficient causes of defence.

1. To the service demanded at the charge of the Defendant the demandant (as per §.1. art. 10) can not have a just right, unless to his supposed right to such service there be a sufficient, and thence a compleat efficient cause. But (per §.1. art. │ │) such efficient cause can not be compleat, unless both its necessary parts be comprized in it; viz. not only the positive, but the negative.