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LIBĒL. WORDS 2
Now this was injustice indeed, first offenses rules but manifest and certain — It was so manifest that
it, it had noted - than it can hardly be suppos'd but that long before this time
[being once fully known to exert] that good sense of the notion must have risen up
against it, & has proved itself in bestowing applying some the only propermind, in the only proper
way by legislative power.<p>
Upon consent of both parties and not otherwise the Judge to have power to clear the Court of all persons, but parties Agents Jury Council & one Officer and the witness under Examination.
<p>In the mean time, as the age <add>mankind improved in ingenuity</add> other judges arose who liberal enough not to endure such
absurdity, & not liberal enough to know that the condition of the Law was not to be
bother'd by any thing they would do to drive it, gradually departed from it.
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The decision if it had not been tamper'd with by the Judges should long ago have received a radical cure by the Legislature.
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