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1827. Octr. 17 +
Law Amendments

2o
Propositions

§.5 Procedure
or Codification Remedies,
Redress by restitution

1

Advantages of Redress
by restitution over the
common law practice
of giving damages in
lieu.

Compare now the extent of the redress capable of
being given for wrong to property by the existing plan system to the extent
of the redress which would be given of course under by the proposed
plan system. Under By the present system for no one the possessor thing moveable thing
whatsoever has the lawful possessor any security when deprived
of it otherwise than by an act which is dealt with as a crime.
None by the great Common Law Courts: by at the hands of the wrongful occupant of
a thing which the law authorises the lawful owner of it to demand
it — not the thing itself: but damages a sum of money to be afforded determined by a
Jury in the of it: after the law has done its utmost the option of returning it the thing is thus left
to the wrongdoer: if he had rather keep the thing than pay the price
so set upon it, he keeps it accordingly. Price as high as £4,000
have been given for a picture. If by any means a man is who
has no right to it has contrived to get into his possession a picture
which he could sell for £4,000, a Jury might think the value
alone a liberal one, if the damages found were £400: net profit to
the wrongdoer, £3,600.

3

Thus is evident the
scantiness & impotence
of the existing system
with the consequent
dilatoriness vexatiousness
& expensiveness

Thus of the existing system the scantiness and to all good purposes impotence
is not more less unquestionable than its unwieldiness immensity
and unwieldiness, with the consequent dilatoriness, vexationment and
expensiveness, and subserviency to that injustice which is opposite
to substantial justice

2

In equity practice restitution
nominally given
but at an expence so
enormous that scarce
an instance of application
can be found

Turn now to the Equity Court. By this method restitution
is professed to be given for a thing moveable unjustly delivered
as well as for a thing immoveable: that is to say provided always
that the value of the thing is not so small, that reparation the affording redress for the
wrong done by the unjust possession of the thing is beneath the "dignity"
of a Court calling itself a Court of Equity: professed to be given — but
at what expence? at an expence so enormous that except with the exception of the case
which gave occasion for this exposition of the sense attached by the understood by the
Court to the word dignity Court of what constitutes its dignity, scarce an instance of application made
to it for redress in this shape is to be found.

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Date_1	1827-10-17	Marginal Summary Numbering	Not numbered
Box	056	Main Headings	Law Amendment
Folio number	166	Info in main headings field	Law Amendments
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