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16 May 1805
Evidence
Another matter general proposition of fact which will be to be brought into view
in all its details as we advance, is – that in point of experience the state
of the existing established system of procedure is upon the whole in
a state of pointed signal opposition to the every one of the legitimate ends of justice, in a
state of close conformity to that sinister end.
In In so remarkable a degree will both those
relations be found to exist, that in several countries, perhaps
in every country, in England certainly, it may be a question
of some doubt whether on the supposition that the interest of
the community was having had never been so much as thought of, the
interest of the original professional framers of the system had been exclusively
regarded, the nature of the system could have been more hostile
to the interests of the community, more subservient to the interest
of the framers, than it is it will be found to be at present.
In the speaking of By the farmers framers of the system I mean
profession or class of lawyers, in all their branches, as above
exhibited enumerated to view: but this the aggregate requires itself to be explained
and justified.
In perhaps every country, and in France and England at least far more
particularly, the adjective system, as well as the substantive, is
hitherto a piece of patch-work, made put together partly in the form of
jurisprudential, partly in the form of statutory law: the jurisprudential
part forming every where the ground, the statutory part
as here and there at different times, in patches.
Of those
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