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disclose any thing to his own prejudice. | disclose any thing to his own prejudice. | ||
And how would a poor Layman who should dare<lb/> | And how would a poor Layman who should dare<lb/> | ||
to suggest this from | to suggest this from the lights of <add><gap/></add> his untutored reason<lb/> | ||
be part to <gap/> & to shame; returned <lb/> | |||
by his <gap/> & confounded by the authority of<lb/> | |||
the <add>wisdom of</add>Law, steady and inflexible and laying down to <lb/> | |||
itself these maxims of prudence from its first<lb/> | |||
original, & not to be changed from its foundations for <lb/>the <gap/> of the new | |||
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EVIDENCE Civil.
It somewhat inconsistent when one thinks of
it
That while people who have no concern in a
dispute are sent for from all parts of the
world o tell what they know about it, the
very persons who know most, the parties the who
theyshould love close under the Courts, are the very persons
who in the Law will not permit even
can never be called upon.
True says the practised Lawyer, but this is on great
wisdom, as knowing on the one hand the great
danger of Perjury, if everyone one were to be permitted
to give evidence in his own behalf
testimony in his own favour: I
on the other the hardship of compelling him to
disclose any thing to his own prejudice.
And how would a poor Layman who should dare
to suggest this from the lights of his untutored reason
be part to & to shame; returned
by his & confounded by the authority of
the wisdom ofLaw, steady and inflexible and laying down to
itself these maxims of prudence from its first
original, & not to be changed from its foundations for
the of the new
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procedure evidence civil |
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