20 Dec r 1806

Evidence To L d Grenville

1 Proposition

1 Letter 1 st

Interest of the people and ends of justice: prevention of misdecision and failure of justice: prevention /reduction/ of delay, vexation and expence, in each instance to its least dimensions, over and above that quantity of evils which in each instance is necessary to the prevention of the other greater evils: interest of the lawyers, and at the head /above all/ of them of the Judges - interest of lawyers, and consequent end /thence intent/ of judicature profit and so far as comparable with profit, ease: increase of delay vexation and expence to its greatest dimensions; if expence for the sake of the profit extracted /extractable/ out of it, and rising in proportion with it, delay and vexation as inseparably attached to the multiplication of instruments and operations, sources of the expence: ease, as far as compatible /combinable/ with profit, ease: next to profit in the order of affection[?] to profit, ease ever ready to be purchased, and upon every occasion purchased, when purchasable at so reasonable a price as the sacrifice of the ends of justice.

Vices of the system of procedure, misdecision /frequency of misdecision;/ and frequent failure of justice: exuberance of factitious delay, vexation and expence.