12 June 1807

(3)

Conclusion

Letter V

II. Litigation

[...?] in which it manufactures /manufacturing/ uncertainty, astutia produces the effect of certainty on both sides.

But in such malâ fide suits in which malâ fides is on the plaintiff's side and the object of the suit is extortion or oppression, there, in cases where the pecuniary circumstances, absolute and relative, of the parties are favourable to the design, though misdecision is not sold, yet all the success that could be afforded by common[?] misdecision is sold by means of the inability of resistance produced on the other side by the expence of litigation, as well as for the profit extractable out of that expence.