/24[?] Dec r 1806/ 1 June 1807

Scotch Reform To L d Grenville

Letter V

II. Proper Remedies

1. By satisfaction beheld as flowing in the shape of gain into the purse of the party injured, and thence in the shape of loss, issuing out of the purse of the author of the injury - by satisfaction, as thus described, of the quantity of matter held out in that shape were to a certain degree ample, making up in quantity for whatsoever it might be seen to want in certainty and propinquity to be deficient on the score of uncertainty and remoteness, it might happen to the knave, if he were of the solvent species to be deterred. No injury, no demand on the score of satisfaction for injury: no demand, no litigation: no litigation, no fees.

Hence one general line of policy on the part of Judge and C o in the spinning out of jurisprudential law, to keep down the quantity of satisfaction as for injury - to take care that in each instance it shall rather be deficient than, in the way above described, and with relation to their ends - the ends of judicature - excessive.

On the side of deficiency, the danger to their purpose is less considerable. Without litigation, the injured party by the supposition will not get any thing, on the score of satisfaction or on any other score. Of him therefore Judge and C o are sure, so long as in his view whatsoever may be the truth of the case - less by expence of suit and vexation be not so heavy as to outweigh profit by satisfaction, vindictive as well as pecuniary included.