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Click Here To Edit Ins. Punishment whether defeasible by length of Time.
Consult the Civil Law and the Scotch Law to see the time
on which Prescription is admitted. An account of Prescription
as it exists should precede in this case the disquisition concerning the
propriety of it.
Observe the Prescription in case of High Treason by a modern
Statute
7 Will.3.c.3.SS 5,6
Those to be indicted unless
within 3 years: in prosecuted
unless indicted within
that time: except for assassassinating
or designing to assassinate
the King.+ Reason here is 1 The universality of the Offence.
2. The. the wantabsence of improbity
Danger of a Ringleader flying and after the time coming in
to raise fresh plots.
These precautions are necessary to prevent it's doing
great mischief, The good it can do that is the evil
it can saveprevent in any case except that of party misdemeanors
is butvery trifling inconsiderable.
In crimes of resentment ought not to be admitted but
only with as far as concerns respect to the extra punishment: it ought
not to preclude the party injured from exacting compensation
if he pleases. Understand in the case where the resentment
is vented upon the property: or where done to the person
if the malefactor be unknown. Yet in this case to be
allowed if no information was within such a time given
to a Magistrate.
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