12 June 1807

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Letter V

II. Litigation

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III. Expence: IV Vexation:- contrivances employed by Judge and C o for the promotion of these evils, in the character of instruments applicable to the promotion of wrongs and litigation.

In the system of procedure, factitious expence and factitious vexation are the natural concomitants or immediate results of factitious complication. But between factitious complication and factitious delay the connection is so intimate, that it is seldom that either can be produced without promoting at least, if not producing, the existence of the other. In the list of causes of factitious delay may therefore be seen a list, if not altogether, at least nearly, as simple, of the causes of factitious complication, vexation and expence. Concerning the nature of the connection between delay and complication see Table I. Explanatory Notes.