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The other is the drawing a line between the
cases in which it shall be a the intervention
of a Jury shall be a reclusesable and those in
in which it shall not. The line drawn by the
Committee is a mere verbal one, without any
foundation in point of reason to support it.
The words civil and penal, I have already had reason to remark, d note at determine decide nothing scarce any
thing with regard to the in point of importance. The most trifling cases
are may be included under the head of universal
or at least of final ones: the most important
under that of civil. A firm may deprive a
man of a shilling: a civil judgment may deprive
him of his whole fortune, and that fortune
may be two millions of livres a year. A
criminal Judge judgement may condemn a
man to hear it said to him so far, another time
it is to be hoped you will be more circumspect:
a civil judgment, by delivering over
a woman to a false father husband, father
or guardian may doom her to violation. The
judgment that dethroned the Decemviral aristocracy
was a civil judgment.
The Committee have not been stopped by
these difficulties, because as yet they have viewed the
institution only at a distance.
The
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