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I lay aside as a most useless and mischievous<lb/> institution as it stands <add>on the footing it stands upon in England</add> at present in its<lb/> present footing, that of Grand Juries.</p> | I lay aside as a most useless and mischievous<lb/> institution as it stands <add>on the footing it stands upon in England</add> at present in its<lb/> present footing, that of Grand Juries.</p> | ||
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It is useless because <del>being design</del> the pretended<lb/> use of it being to prevent vexation it is no<lb/> bar to vexation in the cases where vexation is<lb/> <del> | It is useless because <del>being design</del> the pretended<lb/> use of it being to prevent vexation it is no<lb/> bar to vexation in the cases where vexation is<lb/> <del> | ||
infinitely</del> the most grievous and the most to be<lb/> apprehended.</p> | |||
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It is of no use in <del>mos</del> <sic>offences</sic> short of<lb/> felony, because frustrated <add>rendered of no effect</add> in their cases by <sic>informations</sic><lb/> and attachments. It particular it is<lb/> for that reason of no use in the case of libels<lb/> as a safeguard <add>in the quality of</add> to the liberty of the press.</p> | It is of no use in <del>mos</del> <sic>offences</sic> short of<lb/> felony, because frustrated <add>rendered of no effect</add> in their cases by <sic>informations</sic><lb/> and attachments. It particular it is<lb/> for that reason of no use in the case of libels<lb/> as a safeguard <add>in the quality of</add> to the liberty of the press.</p> | ||
I lay aside as a most useless and mischievous
institution as it stands on the footing it stands upon in England at present in its
present footing, that of Grand Juries.
It is useless because being design the pretended
use of it being to prevent vexation it is no
bar to vexation in the cases where vexation is
infinitely the most grievous and the most to be
apprehended.
It is of no use in mos offences short of
felony, because frustrated rendered of no effect in their cases by informations
and attachments. It particular it is
for that reason of no use in the case of libels
as a safeguard in the quality of to the liberty of the press.
It is of no use in offences of the rank of this
felony, because in those instances + + it never is or can be applied late after the mischief
which it pretends to obviate is interred before
this pretended remedy can be applied. The of
is commenced by the DefendantA man
is committed to prison in the first instance
months before the trial or perhaps a year
before the trial: and the day before the trial, is
the same Day it is put to the Grand Jury to
say whether he ought to be prosecuted.
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