10 June 1807

Letter V

V. No Appeals

V. Parallelisms dismissed

In what diversity of shapes it is that Scotch Interlocutors find their equivalents in English practice - in Orders ( jargonici[?] Ratis[?]) made in answer to Motions - with etceteras upon etceteras.

How it is that in English Common Law that almost the only sort of judgment by which a claim to landed property is either affirmed or disaffirmed is never final in any thing but in name, unless that judgment is to be deemed final which may be succeeded by any number of others on the same point, except where Equity is called in to put a period to the series.

All this, I leave, for the present at least, to the pen of any learned Jurist, who, on the plan of Lord │ │ though with a spirit a little more penetrating, let us hope than that of his learned Lordship Lord │ │ may find himself disposed to draw parallelisms between Scottish and English law.