7 Dec r 1807

Scotch Reform 12

7

Lettr V

Ch.4. Litigation promoted

§.2. General Directions

8. The concern in which you are about to engage being a particular branch of manufacture, it is necessary you should be well acquainted with the most effectual and advantageous methods of providing yourself with stock.

Your stock may be divided into two principal parts 1. individuals at large, considered in the character of litigants, that is in respect of their respective capacities of being put into that profit-yielding shape: these are to you what the sheep are to a shepherd, the live part of your stock: 2. the instruments, by the help of which will be necessary to enable you to draw the matter of profit out of the live part of your stock: these will be to you what the shearing-irons or scissors are to the breeder and feeder of sheep.

9. In regard to individuals, who as soon as received into your pens, in quality of suitors, and as such set down in your books, compose the live part of your stock, you will in the first place, distribute them, in your mode of considering them, into three classes or divisions: 1. Bonâ fide suitors: 2. Malâ fide suitors on the defendant's side: 3. Malâ fide d o on the plaintiff's side. These distinctions you must be careful to observe: the mode of dealing with them being different in many respects according as they fall under one or other of these descriptions.

Your Malâ fide suitors on both sides will be further distinguished by you under the other subordinate divisions; corresponding to the differential characters which will be seen respectively to belong to them, and the corresponding differences in the processes requisite for the catching them and putting them to use.