PRIVATE

4 July 1807

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Scotch Reform

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Letter V

Letter V

II. Litig. promot.

§.8. How to breed the several species of Harpax.

VIII. Directions for the breeding and management of malâ fide plaintiffs.

There are three distinguishable species of them: but one mode of treatment serves for all of them: if there were three hundred of them you would have no more trouble with them than with the three. You need not so much as bestow a thought upon them: look to the other branches of your husbandry, they spring up like mushrooms under your feet.

What you have to study is the making the profit you get amongst you, and then the expence out of which it issues and to which it is proportioned, as heavy as possible, so doing you render the number of malâ fide suits of this class, or at least (what is the only thing you need think about) the aggregate mass of profit extractible from them, as great as possible. Maximize the profit, you maximize the expence: maximizing the expence you maximize the number of that class of malâ fide suits in which the malâ fides is on the side of the Plaintiff, whose object is to crush the adversary, and to whom the expence which you have fabricated serves as a milstone for that purpose.