a vile law system, calculated for expense and with a design to draw by degrees all law business into the Federal Courts. The Constitution is meant to swallow all the State Constitutions by degrees.
On June 12, 1789 a Senate committee proposed a federal court system for the nation. Maclay described it as:
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
It takes a lot of money to hire an attorney.
The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.
Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.
Come, agree, the law's costly.
Without alcohol I'd be richer by two million dollars that went to pay lawyer's fees.
I know from my own experience that lawsuits can be a very slow, wasteful, and needlessly acrimonious way to resolve a problem.
... endless lawyering can prevent efficient justice
To be in the right is often an expensive business.