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Common Law. Law Roman

To my eyes therefore this plank of our Authors appeals to those shows itself be is of no other than of that sort
Meantime let us do justice to our Author, and acknowledge
that his fight shadows with no common of exercise which is called shadow-fighting: but it were injustice
not to observe, that he [goes through] performs it with no common
degree of spirit and resolution.

NOTE [b]

I mean nothing like any personal reflection on
the Judges that sit or have been used to sit there.⊞ ⊞ Of all things not on him who at present sits at the head of that the mongrel profession: a man who has every title to respect, and worthy on every account to administer a better set of Laws.
They are I doubt not upright as other Judges; which is
saying as much as can be said of them; since
disintegrity in would be now a prodigy in an English Judge.
But the mode of procedure to which they are confined
is tainted to perfection with every vice that a mode of procedure
can be tainted with; dark , intimacy admitt of: An odious original a Jurisdiction ill-defined. A foreign language – a train of authorities
boundless –⊞ ⊞ The promotion of an object of monopoly, transactions unpublished and unknown – papers without end – delay odiousness and expence proportionable. The
possibility
viva voce trial, confessedly the best, and which nothing but indolence only the
magna prevents being from being more universally utterly excluded.
and thus what they have done done others is still more difficult
to come at if possible than what has been done in
the Courts of Common Law. The scrap of criminal
Jurisdiction they exercise is pure unmixed oppression,
and it nourishes, as so notoriously, that even our wary
author has proclaimed it, it nourishes extortion in
its bosom.

P.84. Our Author returns to the charge: and twice he
slays the slain.

I found It has one seemed to me I beheld Sargean Timotheus Buck and Serjeant Miller† † Spectator No.436.
each fighting for the honour of his chosen mistress the mistress of his idolatry: to
say nothing of the ⊞ ⊞ Demosthenes (these
things are not to be spoken of but in b whisper under the rose) which
lay ready for him who should but support her cause.

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