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1828. Jany. 15
Law Amendment or Duelling extinguishablePropositions
§ 1. Introduction History
But supposing it ordained and arranged by
the Judges of the land, it could could not be ordained but
on a proper occasion, nor arranged but in a proper manner.
In those days as in the present – on the present occasion in
these days no man, to claim the name of the power of Judge
is given by him who can do wrong, can do wrong
whatever it is by that he does, otherwise than unless it be by counter
to the will of him, to whose inability incapacity of doing wrong
is neither then exception nor any other.
By the weakness of the intellectual judicial part of it, the
state of the public mind, contributed its misinstructed in
the higher cortex regions, uninstructed in all below contributed
was in a high degree favourable and conducive to this practice. No
capacity Neither for the elicitation of evidence, nor for drawing
right conclusions inferences from it when if elicited, was any if
in any degree the case was in any degree complicated, or the evidence
conf indistinct or contradictory was to be found anywhere.
In this state of things, an arrangement so simple
as that of referring the dispute to an arbitrator, and
that arbitrator an unerring one, presented as served by
which the kind was an effectually got rid of cleared away
as if it had been . Noi Duis intersit nisi depens
vendue nodus incident was Homer's rule for plays dramatic
poems. By the power these legal duets cut throat practice thus legalised
this precept was not violated no infraction of tis precept
was exemplified: for, so as the estate in dispute was considerable
enough to create a difficulty, no question tract whether of
fact or lure could be
started, that did not afforded
suffered not sufficient
warrant for callin in
the hand of God to solve
or end it.
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