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7 Decr 1811
Evidence
For a brief indication of the means, whereby the
maximization of the use may be conjoined with the minimization
of the abuse, the following hints, loose as they are,
may must must yet, for the present, serve.
1. Writing being having for its necessary accompaniment
delay vexation and expence, never employ it but
for a determinate purpose.
2. Never employ it, but in so far as it promises to
be preventive of preponderant inconvenience evil – viz. in the way shape
of misdecision, viz. either on the occasion of the suit or
cause in hand, or on the occasion of future contingent suits or
causes: or in the way of recordation, to a statistic purpose, for legislative use.
3. For distinctness, let it be cast into articles and or
paragraphs, short and denominated by numbered.
4. For prevention of mendacity-promptingpromoting invention,
and suggestion, first receive the testimony in the orally-delivered
mode, then, for recollectness, receive
it in the scriptitious mode.
5. To give permanence to orally-delivered evidence,
by minutation and recordation convert it into
scriptitious.
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