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21 Apr. 1816 + 19
Dean Andrews
2 Vansittart
Kings Bench
N
12
45
III. To Chancellor of
Exchequer or Judge
this inhumanity an
instrument for
justice.
Seen above badness
of prosecutors motive a ground
of ex for delinquent,
no delinquent
but may be ex
3 or 4. This sort of irrelevancy is the constant natural resource
of every Chancellor of the Exchequer whose wish it is
for the exercise and extension of favouritism and or corrupt
influence, to stop prosecution, and of every
Chief Justice of the Kings Bench whose wish it is to
define justice
[Proof] Two things have already It has been seen, viz. 1. That
if this plea be admitted as valid in itself, it is at all times
in the power of every such person in either of these situations
to the extent of the authority power attached to this
same situation to give effect to every such wish in every
case. 1 that they have no motive for putting forward pleading any such
any such plea but in a case in which they have not
any better one.
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Tortured words
instruments for
men. Malice among
the usefullest. Many
destroyable
by it, all delinquents
saveable.
Words tortured by lawyers are among the instruments
and among the most efficient of the instruments employed by
lawyers for torturing men their betters. In the dictionary vocabulary of
Westminster Hall is the number of the words
applicable and applied to this most convenient purpose
Among the most useful if not absolutely the most
useful of all these tortured and torturing words is the word malice.
Delightful instrument! word! with this in your mouth, you [may]
sword in your
mouth for it has
two edges
destroy the many an frequently, you may save any every
you please.
D est torq vone ad hic ut torq h
Bacon ab A
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