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Pursuer Tit. VII Ch VII
Oath to be taken by the Pursuer General
District Court of Appeal These are likewise the sorts of offences the most
apt to have for their authors such persons as
are stiled in French gens sans aveu, people
whom nobody owns, people of no character, or of lost characters
for whom nobody cares, and who have nobody no friends
who interests themselves in their fate to such a
degree in such a manner as to wish to see their
punishment fate meet with a respite which is not its
due
Forgery has several titles to be excepted out of the
list. It is a crime of less frequency than most of
the others, it is apt to admitt of more nicety in regard
to the proof, and in not unfrequently more
apt to have for its author a person of respectable
connections.
Offences of this stamp are have accordingly for some reason
or other been treated under the old French law with less ceremony as to the
mode of prosecution than other offences. They have
been turned over to single Judges the Prevots de
la Marechaussee who in their proceedings have
been empowered to omitt a good part of the useless
apparatus of procedure
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