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27 Feby 1807
The benefit deducible from superabundant delay is
thus attached, it is evident, by peculiar ties, to the defendant's
side of the cause.
In the case On the side of the plaintiff so far as concerns
undue profit it is wholly and contiguous in prospect: and principally was in
so far as the pleasure of vexation is concerned pleasure – the pleasure of causing vexation.
In the case of the defendant On the side defendant's side of the cause it is certain and actually
in hand: its duration and its duration is co-equal
with that of the superabundant delay which is the cause of
it: for so long, and as to a proportionate quantity of
value, it gives him a benefit of the same nature as
that which would be given to him by misdecision in his
favour, over and above the benefit attached to that chance
of final ultimate decision misdecision which, as above observed,
is alike capable of attaching itself to the defendant's and
to the plaintiff's side.
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