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again as are to sit. Practice The English practice never
contenting itself with less than double the number. Here
then we have nineteen eighteen Judges to do the business of one:
and if the justice that is done is not over nineteen times
as good in one case as in ano the other it is a
losing bargain. Th Jurors may be paid or not paid:
but whether they are or no makes no difference in
the expence. Time, and labour is the real price paid for every
thing. If these servants of the public are made
to serve for nothing, the burthen is but so much the
heavier for not being distributed diffused. Nor can will the payment
be may made altogether to obviate the inconvenience dissipate the irksomeness
of the burthen. When you buy a mans whole
you may give him the full value of it: and
the sure proof of your having done so, is the his acceptance
of your offer. + +The case is very different, where you take it When But when you take a man's
time piece-meal, at uncertain times which are
not of his own choosing, the equations inequality then assurance fails: it
may be required of him when he would not sell it
at any price. Distinction without money may pay a
the Judge. But in the case of the Juryman distinction
has no place. is this all. The smaller the number of supernumeraries
you require take to make guard against accidents,
the more strict you must be in punishing fining for
all defaulters, at least on failure of the necessary number.
And if by the same reason you punish fine one, you must
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