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Of the (purposes) of Procedure
Rule 3. Whatever step is required on any occasion
to be taken by either party, more than any
reason can be assigned for, adds to the intricacy
of the system, and is thereby mischievous.
Rule 4. The only just reason that can be assigned
for any such step is that it of tends
to avert some one or more of the primary
inconveniences to be guarded against in a system
of procedure: for example the punishing impunity
of the defendant in the case of his being guilty,
or the punishing of him in case of his being
innocent.
27.
It may will now be easy to perceive of what
nature the primary inconveniences are which
this secondary one inconvenience is calculated
to produce. The number of formalities, and
the state in which they are described being
given, the ill effects of the intricacy of the whole will be exemplified
in the ill consequences effects of any one
superfluous formulary.
This formulary the, if observed, produces
trouble in the observance: which trouble is one
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