Hints to Honest Citizens Author:Arthur John Williams Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CIIAPTEli III. HOW TO ASSERT A JUST CLAIM. How to act when you are the Plaintiff—Personal Considerations— Procedure in the County Court—High Court Difficul... more »ties— Aim at a reasonable Settlement. This will be a very short chapter. My hints for avoiding litigation apply quite as much to a case in which you are making a just claim, as to a case in which you are resisting an unfair claim. If, therefore, you have a claim against anybody which you think is a just claim, you had better read the chapter (Chap. II.) containing those hints. Be guided especially by what it says as to your making quite sure that you are right. Be on your guard against thinking too much of what you may be strictly entitled to. You may well be entitled to all that you claim, and yet it may be very hard upon the other side if you exact it. Try to put yourself in the place of the person against whom you have the claim, and be ready to make allowances. Whilstinsisting upon your full legal rights, show readiness to settle upon reasonable terms. Above all things, avoid doing, saying, or writing anything which may irritate or annoy the person against whom the claim is made by making him feel unpleasantly conscious that you have him in your power. Want of delicacy and consideration does more than anything else to bring about lawsuits. If you can do no good with your adversary by these fair means, then if you are sure of success, carefully read what I say in the first chapter (pp. 45, 47) as to the way in which the action must be brought. Should you be able to bring it in the County Court, then read Chapter II., and, placing yourself in the position of plaintiff, you will understand what you will have to do in order to enforce your claim after you have begun your action. In order to do this, you must go to th...« less