£793. on. delays in the court of séfsion. 97 
for bringing the ‘partics to joim-ifsye in the cause, 
even though neither party fhould occasion undue 
delay. . 
But the fact is, that the tardy party’ in place ae% a 
fortnight, will often take six weeks or two months 
at a time, to give in‘his paper ; and wiil procure Te~ 
peated delays, under various pretences, in spite of 
continued inrollments. 
Even the party whose interest it is to expedite, 
_ will often delay his own cause, froin the prefsure of 
other busicefs ; or from indolence, or the difficulty 
_ of procuring or arranging that sort of evidence which 
he wifhes to. found upon. 
And when a cause grows bulky from Tength of 
time and length .of writing, it becomes burden- 
some to the judge also, who cannot but feel a re- 
luctance against sitting down to consider a variety of 
long and perplexing papers ; and to unravel the facts, 
and turn up and apply the law to them. 
_If this be the case at the commencement of the action, 
and before an interlocutor allowing a proof or appoint- 
ing a production; what must happen when a cause 
grows tiresome upon all hands, by being brought un- 
der review again and again and again; and that 
too either when one question is started after another, 
and followed out with the same lengthened and per- 
severing obstinacy ; or, when the whole points that 
can be brought forward are blended together, so as, 
to make the cause more burdensome, and to increase 
the confusion ; and render the case still the more 
jnextricable. 
VOL, xvil, N y 
