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Judicial Estab.
one of those salutary principles good features which accident
and the tacit compromises resulting from the
scramble for jurisdiction have brought to light raised up out
of the chaos of the English Common Law.
With these modifications the Committees
established of Canton Courts would differ but
little from any plan of Parochial Courts, and
perhaps upon it might upon the whole have
the advantage. It would have more simplicity and more regularity:
and perhaps the expence being the result of
a general obligation would be less grudged by
the the several bodies of contributors than if the several portions of it
were required to be separately voted extracted by separate resolutions
of their own.
of Places which should be well lined as it were
with Judges are tracts of country running along
great roads. This is necessary not merely to facilitate
the pursuit of robbers & other malefactors but to settle
those disputes which travellers are so liable to have with
Innkeepers, Drivers, Innkeepers, Tax-gatherers,
people of the country, and one another. Two leagues
or six miles the possible distance a Judge may
have to come if there be but one in a Canton and
he placed at the extremity of the Canton is too
far for a Judge to have to come upon being
sent for to settle a dispute which keep the passengers
of a public carriage or of several such
carriages waiting all the time.
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