ABSTRACT
Nothing can be more worthy of regret, than the manner in which property is at present administered, so far as relates to courts of justice. The doubtfulness of titles, the different measures of legislation as they relate to different classes of property, the tediousness of suits, and the removal of causes by appeal from court to court, are a perpetual round of artifice and chicane to one part of the community, and of anguish and misery to another. Who can describe the baffled hopes, the fruitless years of expectation, which thus consume away the strength and lives of numerous individuals? … The imbecility of law is strikingly illustrated, by the vulgar maxim of the importance of possession. Possession could not be thus advantageous, were it not for the opportunity that law affords for procrastination and evasion. 1
