28 Jan y 1808

Appeals

Of the instances in which the decision of the supreme local judicatory has been affirmed[?] purely and simply in and by the superior[?] impersonal judicatory the number is about four times as great as that of the instances in which it has either been reserved or held back to undergo a change. Taking then the [...?] of the supreme impersonal judicatory for the standard of rectitude[?], and judging by that criterion, the number of instances in which it is certain that the stoppages thus put to execution has been productive of injustice is four times as great as the number of those in which it is possible that the arrangement may have been preventive of injustice /the same undesirable consequence/.

By the light of the same wisdom, but to a still superior degree of certainty, in the case of the Appeals (Anglo- jurgonci Writs of Error) presented to the three[?] abovementioned intermediate Chamber of Review from the immediate judicatores Judging by Common Law, the instances where /in which/ to a certainty the stoppage pf execution was productive of injustice was or was not produced by it, were on an average of the above three years as 89 to 1. for it was in one instance only out of 90 that in the opinion of the Appellant himself his Appeal had /presented/ any such colors of justice as to enable the [...?] of an Advocate to find any thing to say in favour of it.