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Appeal

VI Quot.

The misfortune of M. Thouret has been
the not seeing that the blame of what there
is may be amiss in litigation in the demands
made by suitors of the suitor upon justice lies not in the
poor, nor in poverty, nor in
but solely uniformly and exclusively in the laws: if the
laws encourage chicane, there will be chicane:
if they discourage it there will be none.

The fault of Mr Thouret has been the
sitting down with rather too much tranquillity rather too easily much at his ease
with so full a view before him of partial
justice: the giving up the hope rather too
readily and without trial of finding a cure providing a specific
remedy for rash or anticonscientious litigation: the
seeing the burthens of the law lie heavy upon
the afflicted and blameless poor, without offering attempting
any thing any experiment for their relief.

It has been my good or ill fortune to
conceive that whatever there is most heavy in
this burthen has been the artificial work of
lawyers and lawyer-led legislators: and that even
the small part of it that is the work of nature may
be reduced [to next to nothing: in this view I have proposed ventured

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Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	267	Info in main headings field
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