Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3client, and equally oppressive in its consequences to the plaintiff as to the defendant. But how is this to be done ? By going through the existing abuses and hardships minutely, and showing how they operate oppressively and how beneficially on each, and by weighing the whole; by showing that there is no court in this commercial, and I may say happy, country, (where the laws are administered with equal justice to the rich and the poor, 'provided the poor man can get into court) in which the butcher, the baker, or any other tradesman, can recover a just debt, of textit{S, for goods sold and delivered, without the risk of losing the enormous sum of,100, in law ex- pences, and all his debt; and that so tedious is the job, in consequence of the writ of error, and various other fictious processes, which have, from time to time, crept into use, though never intended by the legislature, or the court, that the plaintiff frequently gets into a prison for the law charges of his own suit, whilst the defendant is out, laughing at his follyj fcy showing that the tradesman has found out, and particularly since Lord Redesdale's Insolvent Act, that it is not worth his while to hold the defendant to bail, considering that his own interest is best promoted by leaving him at full liberty. If, notwithstanding I show this, and show alsothat the principal part of these heavy law charges arises from the arrest itself by mesne process, the plaintiff should still cling to his arrest, under an idea of benefit; give him a court, to be hereafter established, with benefits tantamount to it: he cannot be expected, unless he is satisfied upon that point, to give it up quietly. Let him have a more rapid mode of recovering his small debt, and at one-tenth part of the risk, and, from the moment this new system is established, it.