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I am a poor Mechanic — a . . . .
. . . There was a Law made against
. . . .
I knew nothing of the matter — I broke
it. I smarted for it I was informed against. I was punished. There This
sets me upon thinking may be others about me — think I.
I should be glad to be acquainted know them with
them — what hinders me?
In the first place
Vicini vicinorum facta prasumuntur scord.
This reason is such as one would have thought
should have passed only upon Lord Coke.
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if a Jury is affording a probability of a
just-verdict — Apt some were for laying the blame
on another quarter. Something it is clear, according
to them, was wrong. The question is, what it was
In the vicinity of the Jury, say I, No, say they, but in
it's having been a Special one. As if men in a lower
station of life would have been more masters of their
and their prejudices.
LAWYERS interested
contra.
Maggots bred in an Ulcer wish not to have
that ulcer cured.
From this consideration, two rates are to be deduced.
2dly Not to run out into animosity against
them, as against men tainted with a peculiar and unaccountable
depravity. Those who rail find most
pleasure in fronting at them with most unded
idle license, [+] [+] in the supposal of
such a disposition would perhaps in their places
do + + entertain just the same.
3dly If superior to the prejudices as well as
the interests of his profession — a man Lawyer is sure
to engage with zeal and sincerity in such an
enterprize, to venerate his conduct as herodide
1st To lay their account on finding them disposed
to do their interest to prevent it
and to keep watch upon them accordingly.
4) other is To take most pains to apprise men of
those parts of the Law, of/by which they are
most apt not to be apprised of otherwise without
JURY. Vicinity
no recommendation.
The Vicinity of a Jury a recommendation
An incident A transaction that happened not long ago may
have done something towards disabusing men of
that prejudice. A Parliamentary Candidate is presented
for Bribery. Proof of the fact according to some the
most abundant is produced, yet the Deft is
acquitted. The Jury was a Special Jury.
It was taken from the Neighbourhood. The
Neighbourhood was all warm in its attachments
to the one Candidate or to the other. I enquire
not whether the verdict was just or no.
at least to one party it was not satisfactory
& that a large and numerous one. They loudly accused
called out to the<add> objected the Jury that they were in the interest
of the past Member person they acquitted, and that that was
the motive of their acquittal. This party is a long
and acrimonious one. This party at limits ought
not to find it difficult to see how far the vicinity
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