1 Feb y 1808

II. Appeals

Appeal Acc t defective

In speaking of the Official Account of the Appeals presented to the House of Lords for and during the length of time therein comprized, I spoke of it as being incompleat. So accordingly the case stands. No fact can be more incontestable: - and here begins a separate Chapter in the book of Lawyercraft.

Of the Appeals presented to the House of Lords, sitting in its capacity of a superordinate judicatory, a certain class has received jargonice the denomination of Writs of Error. That they are Writs of Error is out of dispute: such being the name that has been affixed to them by competent authority. That they are moreover Appeals is equally indisputable, having in every respect the nature and effect of those other Appeals which are known by no other name: at any rate in every feature that has any application to the present purpose: and in particular in respect of the draughts drawn by them upon the judicatory[?] part of the time of the House, and in being in their nature though certainly, as in the other case, not in customary language of the practically important and instructive division, expressed by the terms bonâ fide and malâ fide.

Of the species of Appeals thus denominated no mention whatever was made in any of the Official Tables above alluded to, and hereunto annext.