JB/026/036/001

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March 1809 4
Press. Judge's Opinion

§§.5.5. Threatening Letters

1.
Quest. V.par. 2.(a) [interested]
[embarrassed]

The embarrassment
is credible. Confession
being called for is here
at last made.

Mysteries invited
the unbounded pretension
of Judges intended
destruction of the influence
and use of Juries.
p.30

2.
Quest. V.par. 3.(a) Exposition
of [words of the
libeller belongs to Ct J.
i.e.
1. No Juryman understands
their own
language.
2. Words sacred & profane
all termes de la ley —
parcel of lawyers cant.

Not a word in Johnsons
dictionary intelligible
but by a demurrer
or arrest of judgment.
p.30

2 (a)
Insets the 12 Judges
exposition of cutting in
Ellenboro's Act.
p.30

3.
4. For meaning of
potassium, ask, not
Davy, but Ld Ch.
Justice p.31

4.
Quest. V.par. 5(a)
"Sense put instead
of meaning"
1. A jeofail
2 Such for which if
committed by a fee-gatherer
under these
sages, the offender
in question might be
let off or not ad
libetum. p.32

5.
Quest. V.par. 6 (a) [ Is
not a Letter]
1. Use of the jeofail to
print the sareason
Insinuation that the
cause of the embarrassmt
was not in the mala
fides of eql Judges — the
Respondents — but in
a pretended impropriety
in the language
in the Lords — the Interrogators.
2. We

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§§.5.5. Threatening Letters

5 contd
2. We have no difficulty
This puts on a good
countenance. Who's
afraid?

3. When you find it
impracticable any
longer to maintain
a proposition turn
short around & call
it folly. p.32

6
Quest. V.par. 7. [Whether
the letter exists is matter
of fact.
1. Doubtless: but the
question is meaning
not existence.
2. All this is black
matter thrown out by
the Scuttle fish to
blind business. p.32

7.
par. 8 [Act of Parlt
existence matter of fact]
This irrelevant.

8
Quest. V.par. 8(b)
[qualified with crime]
1. This may be admitting
to be law cant
2. No Jury care
to understand it.
3. long words employed
in the description of
a crime, or by which
a crime is committed.
4. qualified with civil
obligation — any employed
in the description
of a civil obligation
or by which a do is
incurred —
Quare ceo p.34

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§§.5.5. Threatening Letters

1.
Quest. V.par. 13 (a)
[Depose the paper]
1. For not in — as useless
as Sea-horse
2. Latin & law — french
for awe striking.
3. Together with wig
gown &c — hard words
not used because not
wanted for any honest
the capital fixt
& circulating of Judge
& Co's trade.

So the Sorcerers
Alchemists & Astrologers.
4. Deposs concesdat
better
than paper.
5. A propos material
in hard words Quisquilious
matter.
p.35

1
Quest. V.par. 13 (b) [ As
other readers do]
1. Pains taken to put
the Lords upon a wrong
scent as if any body
disputed the ability of
the Judge to understand
a paper.

2. Aim of questions
was not to shew that
there was any thing
that the Judge could
not understand, but
Jury could understand
the law.

2.
Difference as to competency
between Judge
& Jury on a General
Verdict.

1. To Judge competent to
give an opinion on
the law oretenus not
on paper. —

2. To Jury alone to
pronounce on paper
viz Guilty or not
Guilty in which in
case of Guilty law
is included. p.37

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Date_1	1809-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2, 2a, 3-8, 1, 1-2
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