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CERTAINTY OUTLAWRY.
As there is an] A kind of instinctive repugnance in man to the notion of condemning a man without a
hearing, tho' from his own default, it is has made it usual in criminal matters to find means to some way upon
revision the Outlawry, either by the Attorney Gen:l confessing an error in point of fact which does not exist, purposely +
+ So said by the Court in the case of the King & Wilkes .- Term 176.
opposing the reversal of an Error in Law.
But this has 3 inconveniences - 1 in the general one of spreading the venom of fiction. 2nd The
making that a matter of favor which ought either the one way or the other to be a matter of right
that of being impracticable where evidence witnesses are dead consistently with the Justice purposes [of these care ]
To remedy this, the evidence for this accusation in the greater crimes might be viz: such for which a man is apprehendible in the first instance
always taken down in writing before the Grand Jury, de bene issi as the phrase is to g not to be produced
if the witness should be forthcoming at the time of the accused party's surrendering
for Trial; otherwise to be allowed valid - In the lesser, in a certain time after the
has been signed in consequence of the Bill's being found - for there the Cap
is the first Notice a party he has Notice being to be given a certain number of times to
in the Gazette at certain interval instead of the antiquated useless form of muttering over a parcel of Law gibberish in
an Alehouse.+ + Note The Proclamation in the County Courts: which since the decline of that Tribunal, have been holden any where at the pleasure of the Under Sherriff - That at which Wilkes was outlawed was holden at a Public House called the 3 Tuns in Brook Street Holborn.
With these provisions, the a surrender of the in Court at any time may be made ipso facto to operate a rev reverence
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of the Outlawry.
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