3[?] March 1807

Judicial Justice

Letter V

Resolut. 10 &c

III. Remedies or Corrective modes

 Rewrite this below?

1. First as to the different operations, correspondent to the different shapes in which injustice, having its source in misconduct on the part of the Judge is apt to show itself.

1. To injustice in the shape of misdecision, the remedy is either reversal or modification: reversal, if the decision pronounced below be erroneous in toto: as if it be pronounced in favour of the Plff., whereas it ought to have been in favour of the Defendant, or vice versâ: modification, if erroneous pro tanto: as if the value of the benefit adjudged to the plaintiff were too great or not great enough: or as if being adjudged absolutely it ought not to have been adjudged but under certain conditions - or being adjudged in certain conditions, such conditions were in any respect improper.