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NOTE
Malicious Mischief
In the England English Law there are upwards near/more than xo Statute
against malicious mischief: By With the same real reason
these might have been xoo or xooo. A man who whose
cultivated turnips turnips were destroyed bethought himself of getting applying
to Parliament for an extraordinary protection for his property turnips.
He succeeded: afterwards his success suggested the same thought
to the cultivator of potatoes In these as in so many other
instances in the English Law it is not the Statesmen
who pen the Law, but the Attorney whose sollicitude
is confined to the interests of his Client. It is the indolence 2
and or shortsightedness 1 of the Legislator, and not the
exigency of the subject matter that makes Jurisprudence so
voluminous. The incapable delegates of Justinian stuffed
their compilation in many places with provisions as
minute as these, and what is worse many of these contradictory.
Offences against
the Law of Nations
Offenders guilty of any committing affray outrage to the person
of a foreign wh Antipodean or other such Minister
or to any person in his service may be given
up to the Sovereign of that nation to be punished
as he shall think proper
Perjury criminative
Punish criminative Perjury by the Lex Talionis
Robbery 5
Robbery is an aggravation on two accounts. 1st
it produces additional mischief: 2dly it is afford an additional
means of chance & that a very great one for accomplishing the obnoxious purpose
Evidence 6
Hear Say good in
common life.
In the trifling and ordinary concerns of life, we judge determine
upon hearing evidence, not as looking upon it to be adequate,
but because we do either we have not the
means of obtaining or do not think it worth our while
to obtain direct original evidence.
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