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<p><add>was</add> it that this reward was <sic>offerd</sic> to? It was to<lb/>the evidence himself, who having seen what<lb/>had passed upon such and such an occasion<lb/><del>wil</del> would go <del>and tell</del> <add>to</add> the magistrate, <note>without delay or<lb/> formality as a son<lb/> would go to his father<lb/></note> and tell<lb/>what he had seen. [The sages of the law had<lb/>not at that time <add>as yet</add> wove <add>spun out</add> that complicated system<lb/>of restrictions <del>wh</del> with regard to the device of evidence, <lb/>which had it not been for a thread <add>streak</add> or<lb/>two of inconsistency which here and there | <p><add>was</add> it that this reward was <sic>offerd</sic> to? It was to<lb/>the evidence himself, who having seen what<lb/>had passed upon such and such an occasion<lb/><del>wil</del> would go <del>and tell</del> <add>to</add> the magistrate, <note>without delay or<lb/>formality as a son<lb/> would go to his father<lb/></note> and tell<lb/>what he had seen. [The sages of the law had<lb/>not at that time <add>as yet</add> wove <add>spun out</add> that complicated system<lb/>of restrictions <del>wh</del> with regard to the device of evidence, <lb/>which had it not been for a thread <add>streak</add> or<lb/>two of inconsistency which here and there got in<lb/>unobserved would have been enough <add><unclear>we now</unclear> have termed</add> to turn <add>strangle</add> the<lb/>substantive<add>tial</add> part of the law into a dead letter.]<lb/><note>Justice in its cradle<lb/></note>In those days no attorneys to assist fraud and plunder<lb/>innocence: <del>causes</del> suitors appeared before the <lb/>judge in person as children before their father:<lb/>causes were discussed and (where the case admitted<lb/>of it as it does oftener than not) terminated at <lb/> one <add>a</add> sitting. [No artificial <add>unnecessary</add> delays: no unnecessary <add>artificial</add><lb/>expenses: none of those subdivisions of legal offices<lb/>which (so different is the work of justice from<lb/>the works of mechanism) produce delay and embarrassment<lb/>instead of care and expedition. The<lb/>functions of witness and <del>inf</del> prosecutor were performed <lb/>by the same person: <note>who in these cases <lb/>was <sic>stiled</sic> the informer<lb/></note> and why <add>not?</add> should it<lb/>have been otherwise? who so proper to give in the<lb/>information as he alone who could make it good?<lb/></p> | ||
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Raising Evidence
was it that this reward was offerd to? It was to
the evidence himself, who having seen what
had passed upon such and such an occasion
wil would go and tell to the magistrate, without delay or
formality as a son
would go to his father
and tell
what he had seen. [The sages of the law had
not at that time as yet wove spun out that complicated system
of restrictions wh with regard to the device of evidence,
which had it not been for a thread streak or
two of inconsistency which here and there got in
unobserved would have been enough we now have termed to turn strangle the
substantivetial part of the law into a dead letter.]
Justice in its cradle
In those days no attorneys to assist fraud and plunder
innocence: causes suitors appeared before the
judge in person as children before their father:
causes were discussed and (where the case admitted
of it as it does oftener than not) terminated at
one a sitting. [No artificial unnecessary delays: no unnecessary artificial
expenses: none of those subdivisions of legal offices
which (so different is the work of justice from
the works of mechanism) produce delay and embarrassment
instead of care and expedition. The
functions of witness and inf prosecutor were performed
by the same person: who in these cases
was stiled the informer
and why not? should it
have been otherwise? who so proper to give in the
information as he alone who could make it good?
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