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Tit. II. B. & or Tit. XI. C.

High Court extreme with ordinary business they call it frequently
and unnecessarily into exercise.

But would you vest in the same hands the
functions of Judge and Prosecutor? can impartiality
be expected from such a Judge? In
individually speaking the same hands I do not
yet not at all for avoidance of partiality certainly;
but merely for distribution of tasks and for convenience.
The considerations which dictate the separation
of the office stations of Judge and Pursuer
in ordinary civil causes in causes between man
and man are as rational as they are obvious.
The right of judging on the part of an individual in one's own cause would be
as great an absurdity for there can be no greater
as the pretended right and so much vaunted of choosing one's own Judge.
But these considerations have nothing to do here
The individual who should sit as Judge on his
claim own claim of his own would equally have an
interest in giving effect to it whether it were just
or unjust. But the National Assembly can not have
no any interest to punish a Judge for prevarication
unless in fact he has prevaricated. Prevarication
in a Judge will be the judging contrary to that
which is thus declared will knowing it so to be to be so. What

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	214	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
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