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was not worth thinking about: means of
ascertaining it, there was were none. Parties while
exhausting themselves in fees, either looked
on and stared; or, seeing that, by attendance,
nothing was to be got but vexation, staid away.
At an early period minutes of these conversations
came to be taken by authority, and continued
so to be 'till the end of the reign of Henry the 8th
No. 1546, from which time under the auspices
of chance, they have been continued down to
the present. Under the name of the Year Books
from the commencement of the reign of Edward
the first No. 1272, they are in greater or less proportion,
extant imprint, having been printed No. 1678.
By this one all powerful Judicatory
(metropolitan it might have been stated
had the place of it been fixt) by this one great
French-speaking Judicatory, the little local
English speaking Judicatories were swallowed
up. Remains to be shewn how this
was managed.
A suit, from which, if given
for him, a man saw he should reap no
benefit, would not be commenced by him.
When in a local Judicatory, in which the
Plaintiffs demand being so clearly just,
20.
was to be got: by serving the scrap of
parchment, a fee was to be got: one fee
like the Queen Bee, mother of a swarm
of others.
Such was the use derived
from this invention in its original and
most simple state: remain to be brought
to view the increments it received, earlier
or later, from the other sources above mentioned:
from the suborned mendacity –
from the established delays, from the groundless
nullifications, on grounds avowed by
foreign to the merits: and as, in process
of time, jurisdiction, as will be seen,
came to be split, then came the ulterior
improvements, introduced by Equity,
and Spirituality: those two favorite
handmaids of the Dæamon of Chicane.
29.
Identifier: | JB/081/177/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
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177a "a" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 177.
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