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21.
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Forfeiture of Reputation.
unless by accident has no connection with that of which
he has actually been proved guilty.
The method too in which which is taken to inflict this punishment
is inflicted is equally remarkable. It is inflicted not by
any restraint or other punishment applied to the delinquent
but by a laid upon another person
a Judge, or by a mischief an inconvenience which may be of any
kind whatsoever, thrown (as the case may require) upon
any person whatsoever. The Judge is forbidden to interrogate
him or to permit him to be interrogated as a witness
in any cause, as also to pay any regard on any such
occasion to any instrument purport ing to contain his
written attestation. The party who may have stood in need
of his evidence for the preservation of his Life, Liberty
or fortune, or the public who may have stood in need
of it to warrant the punishment and guard itself against
the enterprizes of another perhaps more atrocious criminal,
are
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