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9. 
— question 
may go unpunished: that the general 
thread of the law in question may in 
the instance in hand go unexecuted. 
 
10. 
The mischief of receiving evidence if 
voluntary, or of compiling it if involuntary 
may in certain cases rise to such a degree 
as to equal or exceed the mischief 
of such a proportion of the danger of chance  impunity as 
results from the acquittal of the transgressor.
11. 
Under one and the same term Evidence 
Evidence
 {The Fact
 {The Relator
 are perpetually confounded two distinct 
articles things of consideration: 1st the phaenomena 
themselves that are attested / : ie:  judicially
 related) 2nd The person who attests 
them. 
12. 
Signs of Phaenomena are either words 
or tokens.  Words are either spoken, 
or written, either sounds or characters. 
When they are sounds, they are explained 
by the gestures of the person where 
found, they are. there are other means that are convenient: i.e. these gestures. When characters 
the gestures are not apparent: then, characters
are the sole signs. 
The operation  given to these characters 
is given to them as the expression of the 
ideas of the person, by whom they purport 
 to have been made or to have been adopted.
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