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in his train moved a Judge or Judges.
To this train, whatever part of the
Country he had to come from, every man,
who had any thing to complain of, had to
add himself. To the plan, wherever it was,
that the train happened to be at, the Defendant
had to be dragged. When there,
these same Suitors formed a Judge or Judges
who, speaking a different language, could
not, or would not, understand what they
said —
The language of the Normandy-bred
lawyers was a sort of French. The language
of the Country from whence they came,
these lawyers spoke: the language of the
Country into which they were come, they
disdained to speak. The rules, such as they
were, by which the procedure of these foreigner
despots, in so far as memory served, and self
regarding interest permitted, could be guided,
would of course be such as their own language
gave expression to: rules which, as well as the rest
of the language were, to the vast majority of
the suitors, unintelligible meaning by Suitors,
on the occasion, not only those who were
actually so, but those who but for this obstacle,
would have been, but could not be so,
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