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8 May 1805
Evidence
3. Nor are third persons exempt from the chance of finding
themselves involved in the mass stream current of vexation produced by a suit
at law.
In the case of Bail, the vexation though not the less real,
yet being in one a certain sense voluntary, finds in some degree a compensation by
the pleasure of sympathy or whatever other motive gave birth to
the consent as to the rendering of this service.
But not unfrequently it happens to third persons without any such consent,
and without any habitual particular connection with the either party, it happens
to third persons to find themselves thus involved. 1. A defendant
being pursued or his goods being under pursuit for the purpose
of securing his forthcomingness or justiciability, the house or
presence of a third person is broken in upon, or even his personal
safety put in danger by his being called upon and obliged, in virtue of
an appropriate provision of law, to join in the pursuit.
2. Secrets the discovery of which operates in prejudice of a way prejudicial to a third
person come to be disclosed by means of the examinations incident
to the investigation of a stream of evidence.
4. In a certain sense even the public, the community at large,
are not altogether exempt from the vexation to which unsusceptible of the vexation from that source from the
source here in question third persons are exposed. The public
has not indeed a house dwelling to be broken in upon, or a person to
alarmed or plagued. But has yet in one sense can the public
any secrets But there are secrets by the disclosure of which
the interests of the public in general may be insured. To this
head belong all such state secrets by the disclosure of which the
pernicious designs purposes of an enemy, or of a power about to become such, may be served.
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