12 July 1807

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Letter V

III. Litigat. prevent.

4. Favour, according to the nature of it, the institution of pre-appointed evidence: recordation of physical events, such as births and deaths recordation, by transcript or abstract, of contracts, (including testaments and other conveyances included) having the effect of creating, confirming or destroying title, whether to things or to services of persons: to property or condition in life: remembering that is is by no means a necessary consequence, that because evidence is in this permanent shape preserved, other evidence touching the same fact must in every case be nullified or excluded: but that such other evidence as the case happens to afford, may be received in failure, or in explanation, or in conviction, or in completion, or in contradiction, of such preappointed evidence.

5. Afford every power and faculty necessary to secure on every occasion the investigation and production of such relevant and necessary evidence as the individual case happens to afford: saving always the case of preponderant inconvenience in the shape of delay, expence and vexation as above.