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Assault v. Burn T. Servants.
The 7 Politician & the Man were fast asleep, when 1
the 2 Lawyer 3 deliver'd 4 this 5 decision 6 - What []
but a Lawyer could have supposed, that a man
who had value enough for a servant to risque his
person in his defense, would be brought to sit with
hid hands behind him while that servant was beaten
by the consideration, that if he came off with his
life, he the master might chance to be somewhat not to be a sufferer. in pocket by it? by the affair
As far as this doctrine has any effect, it can be no
other than a mischievous one: it punishes all those
who are not influenced He who is not governed by this a consideration is punished: and which he
who is governed by must first have brought his
heart to a state of depravity which is not common
among man.
Laying aside this consideration of ability, there is nothing
even in analogy
As a man is not barred from risking compensation for
an injury done to him in his own person, for having used
endeavors to repel it: why need he for one done to him in that of another man?
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