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Transplantation of Laws
Employed Ch 4
Time & place
Though vested fraught with full powers to make
regulations of procedure, to clear it of the dross of fiction to substitute sense to
nonsense; expedition to delay, [cheapness to extortion]
to cleanse the judgment-seat of the filth of falsehood fiction
[they have suffer'd] noble privileges these powers have slumber'd to slumber be useless in
their hands]. + + Nurtured in falsehood [the lap of] fiction [an English judge] a true disciple of Lord Coke would not know whereabout he was, find himself out of his latitude unless Doe & Roe was incessantly at his elbow. Accordingly these two fictitious personages who (Kings apart) have done more mischief in their day than was ever done by any two existent real beings have been imported we find together with the rest of the legal lumber into Bengal [A true disciple of Lord Coke is
out of his element when confined to truth.]
they will would not suffer permitt + + much as who hear a man to in support
defend his title to the land he occupied unless
till he had confessed that the his antagonist
had let the land to one of these non-entities
whom the other afterwards he the defendant at his the defendant's instigation]
had turned out. What must have been
the sensations of the poor Hindoo at fac when
forced to submitt to this wanton and ridiculous
oppression? Unable to attribute conceive to an European minds
a mass patch of folly equal adequate to the generation
of such [nonsense] gibberish he must have found himself compelled to refer ascribe it to a less providencible cause: to a
deliberate plan for forcing him to deliver himself up without reserve into the hands
of European professional bloodsuckers, and stalking carrying on the traffic of injustice under the cloak of law.
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