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CERTAINTY FORM of Comm. Law. - Disadvantage of instanced in Settling Competency
EVIDENCE
This rule taken without any restrictions is a very bad one: because it suppose
contrary to Truth, that Human Nature is liable but to one
Passion which is Avarice; that the slightest gratification
of that Passion will [commonly] be preferred to every other consideration
& the slightest present gratification to any future.
Yet - it ought not in the way of
Yet it ought it not in the way of common Law, to be departed
from: because any rule is better than none
at all; & because when once it is departed from there
is no rule: & every thing is thenceforth at Sea.
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