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Place and Time
of this second law. But in the mean time the
beneficent effects of this second law have been confirmed experienced
by me; I have made a third. O king!
divola fidum oscula.
I kept my station. character + and enter again upon this stage. I am Chief Justice
(Lord Chief Justice it seems I am of the supreme
Court. The Governor General has made a law:
but I don't like the Governor General or I don't
like his law. It regards nothing but the happiness
of these barbarians: + + It touches on Magna Charter I can find no precedent for
it in Lord Coke: Shall the servant of these
merchants carry his point against the servant
of the Great King? Forbid it honour. The Governor
and Council have given it their fiat: but is that
all? to be valued must it not be register'd, and
register'd in any court under me? Why to be register'd under me, if I am not to judge of it? How can it
be register'd without my allowance? Are not
the Register-books mine, are not the officers
under at my command? Why should it be registerd
it under me, if I am not to judge of it? Why
not register it in the Council-books? Let me
look around? How is it in France? How is it in the French Courts of
Justice? which are called Parliaments Does not the power of registration there
carry with it confer a negative? Might [in
that lawless country] may overcome right, and
cannot
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