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Ch. VI Judicial Application
Rationale (3) §. Oath none why
5 In the case of
Coroners verdict of
Deodands.
5. Coroner and Coroners Inquest in case of Deodands
When by a loaded Coach or Waggon running over him a man
is killed the instrument declaration must be made by those
upon oath so has another wisdom decreed what the instrument was by which the casualty death was
produced. By the whole vehicle or one part of it says Common
Sense. No says Jury and directing Judge not by the whole
but by one wheel and no more: by no other part was
any contribution made towards the production of the effect
Here then is perjury and to what use? To save the
owner of the carriage from the loss of it. For when by the unruliness
of his cattle the a husbandman has lost a servant or
a pin, to console him for his loss, all those Judges have in their
wisdom concurred in giving it with its contents to Kings. Wisdom
with one hand informs the law the same wisdom with the other hand
defeats it.
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Effect of this habitual
perjury.
Now as to belief how stands the matter with these men?
Is it that they do not believe that any such person as God is in
existence? Is it that they do not believe that the power they believing such a person to exist then such a person should have been the
then take upon them to exercise over him will have its intended
effect? They the Judges to decree at pleasure, to the Sheriff
or the Executioner to execute.
Those who into the of the deed are so constantly
occupied in forcing perjury, are they not suborners of it?
But the thing to be proved now — that whatever be the retreat restraint in any
case put upon the makers by which perjury falshood is prompted, men are brought to defile their loss by falshood in
the production of this restraint no part is ever taken by the exercising
of the oath: and the proof is what? were it not for its accompaniment
legal exposure to punishment in a visible sta shape, it is set
at nought by every body: but by none more universally than
by those, to whom in profession and stile it is the object of such prostrate reverence.
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