5 Feb y 1808

on L d Eldons Bill

Appeals

[...?] [...?] what a man would like to receive[?] the wrong. Provison[?] in case of wrongs for which [...?] will not allow a man to admitt the existence[?] of the equivalent.

12. The loss of the use of money, in whatsoever of the above ways the loss were produced /occasioned/ a more commercial man can not have /has not/ received adequate compensation, unless he has received over and above the principal, non-commercial interest at the same rate at which, had it not been for [...?] temporary loss be created or if he had pleased might have received it: and so in the case of a commercial man [...?] to non-commercial, commercial interest

13. So a converse[?], from a non-commercial man the profit to[?] will have derived or may reasonably be supposed to have derived from the temporary use of money which by his own wrong was left to that other will not have been compleatly taken away, unless, being a non-commercial man, he has been made to pay non-commercial interest for and during the rime in question, or if /being/ a commercial man, commercial interest

14. To save in general / By a general rule/ the delay, vexation and expense attendant on particular investigation, rates of interest corresponding to the different situations in which we may be placed with reference to /in respect of/ the opportunities of profiting by the use of money, should for the purpose of the purpose of the provisional allowance[?] to be made in the sum of interest to a party wronged, od the restitution to be exacted on the like sum from a wrongdoer be fixt by general rules: his rates rates corresponding to the two terms of the main distinction between non-commercial and commercial money at any rate.