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10 March 1807
In the instance of land, the practice is not precisely the
same. The plaintiff's demand is exhibited made up by his lawyers in the form of
composition of lies with mendacity and absurdity mixed up with a small proportion of
rational truth, and when the Jury mean meaning of the Jury is to give a decision in
favour of the Plaintiff, they are made to say Guilty. With
this word to work upon in addition to the demand which
called it forth, the Judges settle the matter in their own way:
and the way the take is to leave it to the Plaintiff by the hands of the officers of Justice, the subordinates of the Sheriffs, to take
from the land in the possession of the Defendant in the or
about the place in question what such and so much land
as he thinks fit, but at his peril: i.e. at the peril of
another such suit, or another suit of some kind or other
if in the opinion, real or pretended of the defendant, he
has taken any thing that he ought to take not to take. so have taken
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