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<p>If no answer can be given to any of these questions, it is <del>nugatory</del> <add>evident</add> there can be no <add>ground</add> <lb/>to make the <del>constan</del> <add>decision</add> of the question "whether a paper is a libel or no" a<lb/> matter of Law competent to Judges rather than <add>to</add> a Jury; since <add>neither can</add> the Judges <lb/> <del>here can</del> devise <add>in this case </add> no advantage whatever from their knowledge of <del>preadjudged</del><add>past</add> <gap/> | <p>If no answer can be given to any of these questions, it is <del>nugatory</del> <add>evident</add> there can be no <add>ground</add> <lb/>to make the <del>constan</del> <add>decision</add> of the question "whether a paper is a libel or no" a<lb/> matter of Law competent to Judges rather than <add>to</add> a Jury; since <add>neither can</add> the Judges <lb/> <del>here can</del> devise <add>in this case </add> no advantage whatever from their knowledge of <del>preadjudged</del><add>past</add> <gap/> | ||
<lb/>nor any future Judges in any future case from the knowledge <add>that in question</add> of this; <lb/><note>If the Judges cannot tell why they <gap/> this way rather than that, it will be difficult to say what advantage the subject can reap from a decision being [placed] in such hands rather than any other</note><lb/> the only grounds confessed of appropriating the decision of any question to<lb/> the Judges <del><gap/></del> <add>in preference</add> rather than to a Jury. <del>Every case being decided</del> <add>The decision in every case being <gap/></add> upon no<lb/> < | <lb/>nor any future Judges in any future case from the knowledge <add>that in question</add> of this; <lb/><note>If the Judges cannot tell why they <gap/> this way rather than that, it will be difficult to say what advantage the subject can reap from a decision being [placed] in such hands rather than any other</note><lb/> the only grounds confessed of appropriating the decision of any question to<lb/> the Judges <del><gap/></del> <add>in preference</add> rather than to a Jury. <del>Every case being decided</del> <add>The decision in every case being <gap/></add> upon no<lb/> <sic>assig</sic> <!-- word is truncated -->principles must be particular — and fortuitous whether in the one or the <lb/>other hands; it is <add>in every case </add> a matter of <gap/> & <gap/> whether a man shall be <add>acquitted</add> <del>acq</del> <lb/>or condemned.</p> | ||
2 Libel
If no answer can be given to any of these questions, it is nugatory evident there can be no ground
to make the constan decision of the question "whether a paper is a libel or no" a
matter of Law competent to Judges rather than to a Jury; since neither can the Judges
here can devise in this case no advantage whatever from their knowledge of preadjudgedpast
nor any future Judges in any future case from the knowledge that in question of this;
If the Judges cannot tell why they this way rather than that, it will be difficult to say what advantage the subject can reap from a decision being [placed] in such hands rather than any other
the only grounds confessed of appropriating the decision of any question to
the Judges in preference rather than to a Jury. Every case being decided The decision in every case being upon no
assig principles must be particular — and fortuitous whether in the one or the
other hands; it is in every case a matter of & whether a man shall be acquitted acq
or condemned.
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