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from the effect of the general disposition of the
law is determined by the circumstance of time
and embraces without distinction all such
individual cases as happen to present themselves
within the length of time marked out
by it.
"Too high a privilege to be committed to
many hands." Here the Reverend Doctor is
once more in the clouds: and not knowing
exactly what his own meaning is has not put
it in the power to determine it. By the Multiplicity
of the hands according as their operation
is joint or several the defalcation made by the
exercise of the power vested in them from the
effect of the general disposition of the law
is either increased or diminished. The number
being given if to each exercise of the power
it be necessary that they all concur the
greater the less the power and the
less the defalcation made by it from the
effect of the general disposition of the law.
If to the exercise of the power in each
instance the single will of any one of them be
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law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net) |
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[[watermarks::[simplified hanoverian royal arms] 1821]] |
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