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in which either at the outset, or at this or that time
thereafter, neither in the instance of both parties
nor even of either can the appearance in question have
place. For a time longer or shorter, by distance,
or by uniformity, bodily or mental, a party may
stand debarred altogether from making his
apperance before the Judge, or though appearing,
the aid of an apt assistant may be necessary
to him. When the party interested is a body
corporate, or other numerous class, composed of
individuals assignable or unassignable. Of
agents and other trustees of all sorts the attendance
may, at the outset or at some later period,
be necessary, with or without that of their respective
parties.

But whatever be the best course, the
impracticability of it, in one instance, is it a
reason for not persuing it, at far as practicable,
in any other?

Under the system in its present state,
certain sorts of suits there are, to which the exclusion
does not apply itself. What are they?
They are suits in which, if thus far justice were
not admitted, the exclusionists might themselves
be the sufferers: suits for murder, theft, robbery, house-breaking
and so forth. Judges, whether they have
bowels or no, have bodies. Judges have Houses

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not less propriety, might it be called. Ship-money
produced its Hampden: the Hampden for Justice-money
is yet-to-seek.

Taxes, imposed on Suitors at the instance
of ministers, were bad enough, but they are not be a great
deal so bad as those imposed by Judges. Ministers can
not, without Parliament, give increase to taxes imposed
at their instance. Judges can, and do, give increase,
at pleasure, to taxes, imposed for their own emolument
by themselves.

Out of our torments they extract their own
comfort: and in they way in which they proceed, for
each particle of comfort extracted for themselves, they
of necessity, heap an immeasurable load of torment
upon us.

By every fee imposed, men, in countless multitude,
are for want of money to commence or carry
on suits, deprived of rights to any amount, and left to
suffer without redress wrongs to any amount: others,
made to suffer at the hands of Judges, for want of
the money necessary to enable them to defend themselves
against unjust suits.

In all other cases, the presumption is-
that, if left to himself man will, upon each occasion,
sacrifice to his own, every other interest: and upon
this supposition are all laws grounded: what is

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Identifier: | JB/081/173/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	173	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / c4 / c13 / c14
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	richard doane	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	25960
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