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Tit. II. B. & C.
Of the great great difference thus made to depend upon
the accident of the parties living in the same or
different Cantons, hereafter: at present I confine my present business is
me with the great general emblem.
This institution thus established in Tit. IX.
stands in diametrical opposition to the articles
laying down the jurisdiction of the District-Courts
in Tit. IV. It is there said that that Court shall
have jurisdiction of such and such causes in the
first instance: here it is said that it shall hear
no causes that have not first been brought before
the a Peace-Office either that belonging to a
Canton or that belong established at the Town which
is the seat of the District-Court.
And what is this Canton — Ii Reconciliation-Office?
It is neither more nor less than the Court
of Justice called the Court of the Judge of the Peace:
it is composed of precisely the same persons: him &
his two Good-men-and-true for Assessors and lookers
on.
If the To the value of 50 livres and so forth
it is enabled under the name of a Court of Justice
to hear and to decide: To the value of 250 livres
and so forth under the name of a Peace-Office or
Reconciliation-Office, it is enabled empowered to hear without
being permitted to decide.
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