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CERTAINTY — LAW )( FACT
That the punishment shall be so made so as the case is where a certain group of them concur is a question of Law belongs to the Law Legislature to it
default of the Legislature, to the Judges, to pronounce: whether they do actually have concurr and in an instance proposed, is in question of put & belongeth to the Jury
The number of the Questions relative to the various modes of killing will be governed
in one aspect by the number of the differentes which it is thought proper to make in the Punishment
Where two different species are designed to be made alike to agree in their punishment,
& can be brought to agree in their come under the same definition, there is no occasion for making two
Questions
in another by the
number of circumstances
necessary to make up
such of the mixed modes
of guilt respectively
which a distinct amount can must be given, or
which a distinct part &
limit is ought to be assigned.
And your Drix further sheweth that some time in Novr 1763 your
Drix's said Mother intermarried with John Mills of Camomile Street
in the City of London, clockmaker her now Husband
leads to the commission
of crimes upon the credit
of each Law laid down:
or in the case of crimes
committed in the ordinary
course of things not in
reflection but
in neglect of the Law
leads to a disafectation
in the course of which
it must appear that
Law made laid down could must
be of no service disregarded, and
that the Judges have
done wrong in setting
up a design which
can be of no
service and for future cases
the only
reason for making
a decision so their own
that taking it out of
the hands of Juries
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