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Ins. Tit. IV. B.
Jurisdiction These provisions against partiality more particularly necessary under single Judges. The establishm settling the subject of partiality
upon its true grounds was more particularly
upon under the system of unity in judication. A
Judge can scarcely continue in his territory
for any length of time without contracting some
cause of partiality real or apparent with respect
to various persons, who under an irrational
and unbinding set of regulations would
thus be left without justice. The tribes of
Judges established by the Committee give their
plan in this respect an apparent but unsubstantial
and unnecessary advantage.
Give me a Judge in circumstanced like
mine, and if you insist upon it, he shall
sentence condemn to death or beggary his own
father, or like another Brutus his own
son: and it is for his own sake only and
not for the sake of justice that I exempt
him from the obligation. that I take the
sword out of his hands. For mark well, be
it not forgotten the although he were could
follow pursue the suggestions of partiality in full security, the Judge of Appeal stands ready to undo what he has done and he would be never the nearer to his end. My
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