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C. Pro
Procedure.
17
Fictions. Mischief.
Force and Arms &c.
They serve no other purpose than to expose the Law
[of which they are a part] which they disfigure to the just ridicule and
abhorrence of the people. [Considered as] View'd in the light Ludicrously absurd
of their absurdity they are the objects of ridicule. Considered as
causes [sources of the obscurity in which the Law
is enveloped [+] [+] of the ignorance
that is the consequence
of that obscurity, of the incompetent instructions
that are the consequences of that obscurity ignorance of
the miseries that are the consequences of that
incompetency, they are objects of abhorrence.
Secret Trials
In some causes of a mainly private nature to save the parties from
being mutually exposed to contempt for weaknesses
which the public has not interest in having
punished by in that manner, let the Judge
be obliged bound or at least empowered to h try the cause in private upon
joint application by both parties. As in Actions
for Words Adultery, Venereal attempts
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