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21 May 1805
Evidence
Things being thus circumstanced, if the degree of efficiency, and
thence of coerciveness and burthensomeness be made to in any instance
to depend merely on the class under which as above the suit is ranged, without
regard either to the specific nature of the offence weight, or
the individual circumstances of the party or parties, practical errors of
great moment seem not fail, it is evident, fail of being every and thus
the result. One man will be vexed more than is necessary,
because the suit is called a penal or in the superlative a criminal
one: another man, will not be for want of being vexed so much as is was necessary
will escape from justiciability, and the plaintiff lose his right, because
the suit is ranked under some name synonymous equivalent to
non-penal.
And so it may happen in regard to the quantum of probative
force required on the part of the evidence.
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