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Ch. IX
(8) (5) (8 §.
Anglicé
When on any special ground true or false more
delay is desired money in much greater abundance is
extorted. An application to the Judge is really
evidence to support the allegation, a mass of written evidence is rendered
to his cognizance — the evidence is drawn up penned not by the
him the individual whose statement it but by an Attorney, by
whom it is licked into a form deemed suitable to the
and his purpose: along with this evidence goes an account
of it a sort of comment on it penned likewise by the
Attorney. This comment is called a Proof, and delivered
to the . The application thus made, may be
opposed by a counter application for the other side
drawn up in the same manner; and then out of the
belly of the principal suit is bred an incidental one.
Even within the bounds of the kingdom of England not
to speak of united kingdom and distant dependencies the distance
of the abode of the suitor from the Judgement seat varying
from a few feet to about little less than 300 miles, for this circumstance
may be formed a judgement whether in the establishment of this
time fixation rules what sort of regard was paid to the convenience
of the people in the quality of suitors, and what
sort was the matter which in the establishment of this constitution
the first and thence the in the mind efficient course.
By The claimed for postponement adjournment being throughout the
process multiplied partly by Nature partly by ingenious industry
and in of under the name of vacation, vast interest
of relative inaction having been most abundantly established, suits
in
in continued abundance
are there endeavoured
to be crowded by regulation
into species of
time incapable of holding
their suits are thus put off from year to year, every interest being a gulph on which the fortunes of the least opulent of the contending parties is swallowed up: and
inequity being triumph
the person of
the most
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