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The quantum of a qualification is limited as we have observed on the side of increase by the
number of persons proportion to be found possessed of property to the amount proposed
number of persons qualified to be found; a fact capable of being established and which when
it is established, cuts off all dispute: the subject persons plainly on that side affording no such it is not so on the side interest limit of denomination: the subject on
that side affording.
on that side it is plainly what it is not in the nature of the subject to afford any such arguments
as shall point at any certain degree no such arguments that can be produced that at any certain degree in the in exclusion of the rest
The terms words moveables & immoveables used by the civil law are much apter than
those of real & personal of our own: in as a proof of this, it is these former words the former are the very words that
our Lawyers have recourse to when they mean wish to be understood by any but one themselves.
another. v. Bac. Abridgur & Blackst.
The 2d of the problems we have mentioned to judge of the facility by the success is far from being the easiest in the science
to resolve. Those names for the several divisions of property, tho' words by use become familiar, are unhappily
as we have already seen in one instance, tainted with equivocality: & those which might be
substituted in the room
For all this there is no other remedy than definition; that capital effectual instrument of lucidity expedient
of legislative discourse so highly needed & so little used.
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this is the name usually given it: tho' perhaps to consider it truly it's efficacy may appear
to be more strong & universal as a sanction merely moral
determinate punishment suffering to be received here at the hands of unknown certain
person — 2d indeterminate suffering to be received hereafter: 3d. indeterminate punishment
to be received here at the hands of unknown uncertain persons.
The Oath is properly speaking not itself a the Sanction; but a form wherby a person
is understood to subject himself to a the sanction — I say in conformity to common discourse
the sanction; tho' in real truth, it is there are two, the one perfectly distinguishable from the each other
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