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Let the name of every crime while it is debating
be hung up in some conspicuous
place; so that every body in the court
may see it. For this purpose it must
be in large characters of a certain size — ones
They could would be hardly be made large enough
with the pens They should be printed
characters capitals of the size for example of
those commonly used in the larger kind of Play Bills.
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The printing may be so performed by a machine
of the kind of those commonly which are sold
under the name of portable printing presses.
The trouble of composing would be no objection
two names only would be wanting that of
the Plff and the Deft. with a [v]
between them to stand for versus.
12 or 14 letters could be are as many as would
be ordinarily required.
Causes come on either by appointment
or upon Motion — When by appointment
it may be the care of some Officer of the
Court to provide the note, and
fix it up in its station — When by Motion,
it may be handed up by the Counsel
as he moves. For this purpose, it must
be an instruction to the Attorney Attornyes, to deliver
to a note of this kind to the Counsel with their briefs
The utility of this little contrivance is
too obvious to be insisted on. For a
cause to be known and to be spoken of, it
must have a name. In the course of an argument A Student hears
something which interests him, he wishes
to take a note of it. The first thing he wishes The first thing he
he knows the cause that he may
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Such knowledge is it may necessary not to be informed of it not only to a to give but to his , but very often to enable him to understand the argument. The relation of the circumstances mentioned in the course of an argument, to this question in debate, is often not to be understood, without knowing that this or that person mentioned or the occasion of those circumstances was the Plff or the Deft.
does is to enquire after the name - He asks
his next neighbour, and he may ask perhaps
half a dozen of his next neighbours and
not learn it after all. So much time lost
to each of them, and very likely at one of those often at critical conjunctions
when the clue once dropt, cannot
be gather'd up again.
The name of every cause is indeed once at least mention'd.
once at least that but that is at the beginning entrance into the
debate: that is just at the time when a man
cannot as yet form any judgment whether
there will be any thing worth his
being at the pains to minute down. a drudgery
I suppose no man ever thought of
subjecting himself to, that of taking down
the name of the cause and every little motion
that is made, with (which perhaps too he is not
able to catch as it is utterd) at with the chance
of twenty to one of his troubles being of any use
to him.
Nobody in short Lawyer or not Lawyer that has ever had occasion
to wish to know whether it was such or such
a cause at any time that was before the
court but must may have experienced how difficult
it often is to come at such information.
We The effects of this difficulty are
to be seen in the works of almost
every Reporter. Scarce any book of Reports
but what contains many cases without
a name. A multitude of cases for this same
reason are wrong named
PROMULG. N.Y. Books. Name of Case to be hung up [VII.
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