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1 May 1805
Evidence
Thus stands the matter with respect to men of law of all
classes, taken without distinction, in the instance of the Judge himself, vexation falling in
the first instance upon him, is liable, when swolen to a certain
bulk pitch, to fall ultimately upon the suitor, and that in such
a shape of a different sort of evil – an evil opposed to a different
end of justice. Swolen to a certain Such is the case where of
the torrent of vexation swells to such a pitch as to overpower the intellectual
faculties of the Judge: if for example, fixed the time allowed to any
given causesuit, fixed limits being set to the time allowed for going through the judicial functions on the occasion
of that cause,(a) being limitative the quantity of evidence and argumentation
submitted to calling for his attention within that time, be more than exceeds
what his intellectual faculties can employ themselves upon with effect made a proper use of.
In this case, the decision, instead of turning being grounded on the merits,
is determined by turns upon ground foreign to the merits, viz. the floating chaos
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