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Miscell
Objection to consolidating
Acts.
-sidering and] treating every Act only as a Bill &
so moving to amend it or to make insertions or to omitt
In the 18 G.3. An act was made merely
for the purpose of inserting the word Corporation
after the word person.
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Perpetuation of Simplicity
Title of a Section
Means of preserving the Code in its [original]
simplicity.
By adhering inviolably steadily to these rules, the regularity and
simplicity of this Code may be maintained inviolate
to the end of time.
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Formalities of
Procedure - how
to enforce.
Where formalities of Procedure are presented, for
the sake of checking partiality in the Judge, do not
make the whole procedure void upon a failure
in any of those formalities, but only indicate it as
a ground of complaint and a presumptive proof
of partiality if the party in whose favour they
were prescribed thinks fit himself aggrieved by the
Judge.
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Examinations should be public.
Examinations should be public 1. For the sake
of the moral Sanction 2. For the sake of evidence with
a view to the political.
In France and other countries on the continent
the Judge is often a low needy fellow who is so poor as
to be liable to be influenced by the temptation of petty profits.
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Sodomy
Sodomy [and Bestiality is heresy in point of taste.
Those who have been for punishing parties have often
condescended to attempt to prove their principles to be
mischievous to society; that those offenders might to whom
they were not odious in the account in which they were so
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