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|510| that they are incapable of dispatching it. It is acknowledged by Emperor and Empire and by the Imperial Cameral Court that the Imperial Cameral Court is even less than the Aulic Council equal to the volume of its business.
No evil seems capable of an easier remedy and [nothing] to be simpler [than] that, even if several separate courts were not to be set up, the number of judges of the existing courts should be increased and thereby both the dispatch of business immediately accelerated and a division of the same court into several sections [effected], and in this way several courts in fact set up. So simple a means, however, cannot possibly be carried out in Germany; it was indeed resolved, and the number of assessors of the Cameral Court raised to 50, but the German Empire was unable to raise the salaries of these judges. The number sank in the course of time to twelve and fewer, until it has finally come to twenty-five.
The official calculations show that the number of lawsuits brought each year exceeds by very much the number of those which it is possible to decide, even if the report on a single case lasts not, as formerly happened, several years, but still at times several months, just as then, too, in consequence of this and according to counts made, many thousands of cases lie undecided, and soliciting, even if its worst abuses fall away and Jews no longer establish a trade in this article, is a necessary evil; for given the impossibility of all the lawsuits brought being adjudicated, it is necessary for the parties to take every pains that their own obtain the preference of a judicial decision.
A thousand other collisions over the presentation of assessors, the itio in partes, have often put the Imperial Cameral Court out of action for several years, and without the
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