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a separate head of offence under the notion of its
being evidentiary of complicity in regard to theft:
as is likewise under a similar idea By a fifth the offence
of obliterating the marks upon goods thrown ashore
which have come to land in consequence of accidents
at sea 2. An. St.2.
26 G.2. c.19.
is made an independent offence
under a similar idea.
As to evidentiary offences the establishment
of them on a separate an independent footing argues one of two
things: 1. a supposition of defect in the system of procedure;
or 2. a distrust of the wisdom of the judge.
He They who proposed the statutes of Ch. by which a
man is punishable for having in his possession
stolen goods, of his title to which he was shall without being able to account for his coming by
them have been unable to give account were dissatisfied,
in the instance in question at least, with the
regular provision maxim rule of the English law which reprobates
the exaction of self-convicting evidence:
for the provision statute is a repeal pro tanto of the
rule. They who proposed the provision of relative
to infanticide and that relative to the pirac the
plundering of wrecks must seem in like manner to have
distrusted either imp discernment or the impartiality
of juries. Being of opin If they had not themselves
been of opinion that the accessory offence act was
conclusive
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