96 on delays in the court of Sefsion. — Sept. r&. 
and pethaps more important uses to which it may be 
then applied, of which the following is a brief e+ 
numeration of such as occur to me at the presents 
To be continued. 
ON THE DELAYS iNCIDENT TO THE COURT 
OF SEssIon. 
Continued from p. 60. 
To the Lord President of the Court of Sefsion. 
; LETTER III. 
My Lorp, 
Tue waste of time in a law suit is like the squan- 
dering of money : It is continual and irreparable. 
A month’s time is allowed to a party to make his ap- 
pearance in court. A fortnight more is consumed 
by the outgiving and enrollment. And efter the 
pleading of the cause, the lord ordinary,seldom de- 
cides even the relevancy, but generally appoints a 
condescenience, either of the facts that the pursuer 
undertakes to prove in support of his action, or 
of those the defender fotinds upon in his defence, 
Ten days are commonly allotted for this purpose ; 
but they extend to a fortnight, before the cause 
appears in the roll. Another fortnight elapses in 
the making of answers ; and the like space is e- 
qually necefsary both for replies and duplies: nor 
can lefs than a fortnight well be allowed to the ‘lord 
ordinary for advising the whole of these papers, 
Thus a period of three or four months is consu- 
med before the first interlocutor is pronounced. 
In other words, a whole winter sefston 13 necefsary 
