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Equity. Compulsion of Evidence
Inserenda
The Roman Civil Law Roman Law was the
Law of the Roman Emperors and afterwards,
of the Popes. The Courts of the Popes always
and of the Roman Emperors from after they
became Christians swarmed with hungry
Ecclesiastics, who as woeful the business
of the Ecclesiastical Tyrant were to be clothed
and fed at the people's cost. One of the few
things they could do with the appearance of doing
service was to write. Europe was deluged
by their workings. Hence every thing
under their administration was transacted upon
paper. Those who transplanted the Law
thus administered into the country, frauding
by imitation, and not knowing or not
regarding the reasons for adopting a more
compendious method, went on and the same continued this abuse.
way It still presses upon the body of the Nation
and from that body not a finger has yet
been held up to remove it. Trade however
at length met with a necessary relief. The
exigencies of it could not submit to these delays.
The profits of it could not support it under
these exactions, fed, where was in its power
Equity. Compulsion of Evidence (50
Inserenda
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