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, when considered abstractedly from these, it's probable effects.

The complicated state of the Law in it's various departments calls aloud for the adoption of some measures to simplify and reduce it to a plain and consistent uniformity.

The Administration of Justice is indeed pure beyond the thought of calumny; but even here much remains to be done—I shall however on this occasion confine my observations to the equitable jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, which has drawn to itself such a multitude of causes as far exceed the physical power of those to whom the investigation of them is committed to decide within any moderate compass of time; and are consequently attended with expence beyond all