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ON THE DELAYS INCIDENT TOTHE COURT 
Or SEssion. 
‘Continued from p. 172. . 
To the: Lord Prestdent of the Court of Sefvion. 
pigtt © Letter v. 
_ My Lorp, 
Oor ancient laws and regulations, however vene- _ 
rable, cannot in every particular be well adapted to 
the manners and situation of the present day. Butas 
all human institutions admit of being modified, some 
of them 2re moulded by time and usage, into the form 
required, andothers requirea direct alteration, toanswer 
the-change of times. A gradual alteration has taken 
place in the mode of pursuing and defending an ac- 
tion. Unnecefsary procefses are no longer raised, 
to vex and harafs an opponent in place of aiding 
vor securing the recovery of the debt; and dilatory 
and unavailing defences are justly considered as un- - 
becoming the practitioners ; who are also in use to 
concert matters with each other, as to the time and 
manner of proceeding in the cause: but although, 
‘by these means, a good deal of the former waste of 
‘time is saved, much more must be done in order to 
attain the desirable object of cutting off as far as 
may be all unnecefsary delay. 
In nO one instance, is it more difficult to do so 
than in the case of an appointment to make up astate 
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