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27 Decr. 1810
Prize 1805 1809 §. 112, 109, 111
☞ Relate how much depends on the rule of extraction of evidence
N.B. Intro. neglected
Few indeed are Under the existing practice it
would probably perhaps not be very easy to find a Statute of any
considerable length in which this incongruity imperfection was altogether
steered clear of.
But for the costs of suit this virtual licence thus granted
would be have place much more frequently than at
present and would
Of the virtual licence thus granted the efficiency is it will be seen can not but in
some degree the be disproved and lessened by the additional eventual
charge constituted by composed of costs of suit. distribu in some a considerate
degree the effi especially considering when it is considered
how unfathomable the mass of burthen is apt
to be. But in each individual instance, whether the ballance be
on promises to be on the side of profit and loss or threatens to be on the
side of loss is matter of calculation, and frequently
it will happen, that on the side of profit a ballance
more or less considerable will be appear morally speaking sure,
will appear sure secure certain and that to a degree of certainty
altogether sufficient to determine practice.
Punishment and ruin to little to petty offenders, honour and reward
to great uses such upon the whole is the general
result of an the arrangement thus described of this kind sort, by which
invariable restraints are opposed to infinitely variable incentives.
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