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Tit. V. B. Judicial Estab.
Parochial the territory is ascertained to be such as to render it
practicable in whatever instance the quantity of
the business requires such an establishment and
the opulence of the territory admitts of it. The
authority committed to the Ecclesiastical Minister
will by this means remain wherever the choice
is approved of, and no where but where it is approved
of. It may any where do good, and it
can not any where do harm. Parishes being
of very unequal as well in respect of magnitude local extent
as of opulence and population, by la many
parishes by a parish a parish which could not afford the expence of itself may by associating
with its neighbours enjoy the benefit of
a professional Judge. It is in and near towns that Parishes
by reason of the smallness of the territory in proportion
to the population on the one hand, and their
opulence on the other, are most likely to give themselves
that the benefit of such a consolidation: though
by reason of this opulence they may stand the
loss indeed of resorting to their neighbours for assistance.
It is in the th poor and thinly peopled
and remote country parishes that the benefit
of claiming this sort of temporal service on the
part of their spiritual instructor will be most
sensible. The small quantity of law business which
such a territory can supply may render it not worth
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