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1826. Octr. 25
Review of Humphreys

Ch. Agenda
? (4)§. Depending Suit

2. If, upon trial, as a course of experience the natural system is it to be assigned
and taxed with being ineffectual? Documents are called for,
and out comes a list of suits commenced at the commencement
of the course and not yet terminated — Follows exultation
and triumph. But in what case? If of all suits to each of
which has received its termination no one has or has memorably
have either not been kept penned, or having been penned have been destroyed,
or being preserved and forthcoming have been presented
to none but the inexorably closed eyes.

Thus are pulverized are the lawyers arms broken to pieces before his
hand arm can be stretched out to take them up in hand. Remains to him no means
of defence but what are to be found macerating and dissolving
in the Book of Fallacies

To compleat his confusion, one more observation remains
Look over the whole list of suits what in the compass of an hour
or two from commencement have each of them received its termination as above
Not one of them which had the judicatory instead of
a Small Debt Court been an Equity Court might not have by either party
been spoken out at pleasure decry an indefinite number of years
costing as many hundreds, not to say thousands of pounds as years.
Not one of them in which by witness were Mr Attorney General
a year and a half might not have been made to elapse
before so much as an a bare answer be to have could have been obtained
at the hands of the Defendant to the allegation of the plaintiff

Oh but the Why? in a case this simple? No if upon
mendacity on the part of Litigants any tolerably contrived restraint were
imposed. But by Eldon and Co in Ireland, as whilst it was
by Redesdale and Co and now it is by Manners Sutton and Co
in Ireland, mendacity in is not only merely left unrestrained but
encouraged: and not only encouraged but compelled: Over and this not
merely
merely in this or that instance
but in every instance Over
and over again has this
been published: lawyers by
the very act of publication
challenged to contradict.
Lawyers one and all silent
and by silence confessing — non lawyers through prejudice or despair, alike motion and motionless. How long will this be? How long must the only
Advocate have been in his gown before
the only he can for
into his make his hand?

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