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profit yielding surplusage.
By the plaintiff, his story had
to be told to a sort of Agent called, in process
of time, an Attorney, a word which meant
a Substitute: from this Statement, the
Attorney had to draw up a case, from
this Case an Advocate, stiled a Serjeant
Contour, afterwards simply Serjeant,
(Barristers originally stiled Apprentices
were not hatched) had to draw up
the pleading, commencing with that
stiled, as above , the declaration. Attached
to each of these learned persons was his
Clerk: Masters and Clerks by each one of
them was received his fees.
Father of a family! when you
have a dispute to settle between two of
your Children, do you ever begin by driving
them from your presence? do you send
them to Attorney, Special Pleader, Serjeant
or Barrister? Think you that by
any such assistance, any better chance
would be afforded you for coming at the
truth, than by hearing what the parties
had to say for themselves?
The Judge was a Shop-Keeper.
A curious article, stampt with the
name of justice, the commodity he
dealt in. By hearing the applicant the
would be Plaintiff in person, nothing
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the Defendant would have been sure to
lose, a suit was defending, the Judges
on each occasion at the instance of the
Defendant, sent to the how-soever distant
Judicatory in order to proceed no further,
and to the Defendant, an order to come,
and, along with the Plaintiff add himself
to the train, as above. This having
been made the practice, and been extensively
felt and universally seen to be so, thus
all over the Kingdom was an end put
to the business of all the English speaking
and Justice administering Judicatories
If a man, who was rich enough,
beheld within the jurisdiction of one of
those judicatories another whom, by enmity
or any other cause, he was disposed to
ruin, all he had to do was to commence
a suit, either in the great traveling Judicatory,
or in the first instance in the little
fixt Judicatory, and thence call it up
into this all devouring one.
Appeal, on such occasions, does
good service: the practice, (evocation in
French it is called) was, any body may
see to how great a degree, an improvement
upon it.
If from all these Judges-Shires,
howsoever denominated and empowered -
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