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1829. March
Abridged Petition
1. Case
VI. Delay.

1.
Appeals and Writs of Error.
Transference of a
Suit to a relatively superior
court for misdecision.

2.
Nor for misdecision only
not for non-decision are
appeals received.

3.
Causes of the deficiency –
1. Opinion of inaptitude
of the system –
2. Do. of inaptitude of
the Judges –
3. Fear of ruin by the
opulence of the other
party.
4. Indigence such as
to prevent institution
of the suit.

4.
Appeals
1. direct from Westminster
Hall Courts
to House of Lords.
2. with interposition
of Exchequer Chamber.

5.
By Appeal mountains
of delay added to the
mountains already
sketched out.

6.
Stages of Apeal
examples.
1. From inferior Courts
to Common Pleas.
2. From Common Pleas
to King's Bench.
3. From King's Bench
to Exchequer Chamber.
4. From Exchequer
Chamber to House of
Lords.

7.
Appeal and counter-appeal
between Common
Pleas and King's Bench.

8.
Equity Procedure
States of Appeal –
1. Exceptions to Master's
Report appeal to Chancellor,
Vice-Chancellor

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or Master of
the Rolls.
2. Rehearing appeal
from Chancellor to his
successor.
3. Rehearing appeal
from Chancellor to himself.

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1.
Source 6. Equity Procedure.

2.
Modes of eliciting
evidence three.

3.
1. Epistolatory mode
by interrogatories in
the bill.

4.
Delay of months
between interrogatories
and answers.

5.
Cross Bill for eliciting
evidence on Defendant's
side.

6.
Delays variable
with variations of
Easter Term.

7.
As yet no evidence
elicited from extraneous
witnesses but
only from the parties.

8.
2. Oral mode by
examination in
Examiner's Office.

9.
3. Oral mode by
examination in
Master's Office.

10.
By this mode
Judges vacations
seven months out
of twelve.

11.
Delays added by
Injunction suits.

12.
All this for years
after institution of
Equity improvement
Commission.

13.
Separation of Law
Reform Commissions.
Object the giving
perpetuity to the system
of depredation
and oppression.

Identifier: | JB/081/072/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1829-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-8, 1-13
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	072	Info in main headings field	abridged petition
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Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
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