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30 June 1805
Evidence
☞ Ordo. Summary not till after Registrars? its excellence consisting in the exemption from the defects of the Regular.
Ch. English Law. Summary Procedure
§. 1. Courts of Coscience
§. 1. I. Summary procedure. No 1. Procedure as in of the
Courts of Conscience.
1. Conscience
2. Justices
3. Martial Military
4. Martial Naval
5. Arbitrators
6. Bankrupts
7. Bail opposing.
The composition of these Courts – the number and quality
of the Judges – are nothing points altogether foreign to the present purpose. They will be considered in their place. By
defects in relation to those points, they may the institution instead
of being beneficial in the degree attested by experience, might
be bad upon the whole, and the superior excellence of the System mode
of procedure pursued in them remain not the less incontestable.
The utter abstinence from that system of methodized plunder
The privity of these Courts in respect abstinence so conspicuous
in the constitution of these Courts in respect of the non-creation of
that mass of factitious delay, vexation and expence which
is no more conducive to justice in one sort of Court than
in another is another feature, which important as it is
belongs not to this present purpose.
The only point of view Of the arrangements observed pursued
in these Courts such whom belong to the present purpose head as
concern the reception and extraction of testimony.
On this ground all that prodigious monstrous mass of injustice
which has been was its origin existence produced by the sinister interests and prejudices
of lawyers men of law being excluded along with its authors creators – all
factitious justice and factitious injustice having been shut out, pure and natural
justice, the offspring of common sense takes place of course, the chair its seat
without effort, and as a matter of course.
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