12 July 1807

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Letter V

III. Litigat. prevet.

III. Directions for the prevention of malâ fide wrongs and eventual malâ fide defence on the part of a defendant combating for success through indigence on the other side.

Take away all factitious expence and vexation: in case of necessity provide for the defraying of the necessary mass of expence at the charge of some fund other than of the purse of the indigent individual in each case. See below Directions concerning malâ fide Plaintiffs.

IV. Directions for the prevention of malâ fide wrongs and eventual malâ fide defence on the part of a defendant combating for intermediate profit by delay.

1. Do away all such factitious delays as you find already established under and by the existing system: to do this you must substitute in every Court of judicature the natural system to the existing modification of the technical.

2. In regard to such facititious delays as even under the natural system it might be in the power of a defendant, malâ fide or even bonâ fide, to produce, be careful to take away, in every shape, all possible profit from the delay; and in particular so ordering matters, that whatsoever be the loss produced by the delay to the party on the other side, viz. on the plaintiff's, full satisfaction shall be made to him for it at the defendant's expence.