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18 July 1810
Fallacies
Ch. Ins employ most
or 8 8
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Were mischievousness
not unpopularity
the cause of attack
abuses and imperfections
touching the administration
of justice would
long ago have been
exposed — and remedied
( of how abuse
stated uncertainty,
delay &c)
But of those abuses &c
the unpopularity being
in proportion to the
mischievousness.
If instead of unpopularity mischievousness were
the quality generally looked for in the abuse or imperfections
gen taken for the subject ground of attack the system of abuses
and imperfections of which the administration of what
goes by the name of justice is composed would long
ago have been s into and ransacked to the utmost, and that
natural system which has for its objects certainty dispatch cheapness
and unvexatiousness substituted throughout the whole
field of law to that technical which has had for its
object and its effect the screwing up the degree of uncertainty,
delay, vexation, and lawyer's-profit-yielding
expence to the highest possible pitch consistent with endurance.+
+ In Scotch the form
passim
Unfortunately that part of the mass of abuse and imperfection
which has this part of the field of government for
its theatre falls as far short of every other part
of the same mass of in point of unpopularity
as it exceeds it in point of real and
personally felt home felt mischievousness.
Add the , or copy from, or refer to some other piece
for a brief relevant designation of the imperfections of the judicial system
and their want of adequate unpopularity.
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