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Fallacies
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"Discretionin a Judge is the law of tyrants: in the best it is p.53
imprecise the worst it is always unknown; it is
different in different men; it casual, and depends
"upon constitution, temper and passion. In the best it
"is oftentimes, caprice, in the worst it is every vain
"folly and passion to which human nature is liable"
Such are the words of the opinion attributedpublished as the words of to
the late Lord Camden, as delivered by him when Lord and said to have been
altered there as contained in an opinion delivered
by him 1765, in on his then character of Lord
Chief Justice of the Common Place, in the occasion of
to quicken respecting the validity of an objectpropriety of putting an excluding
the evidence of a witness on the ground of interest
To those who Or many of these are defu when preserved from
the deceptitious influence of this or that fallacy are preserved
from it, not by rational and relevant considerations,
but by the influence of some fallacy acting
on the other side, this would naturally enough be
received in the character of a most impressive andtriumphant argument,
and mightcapable of making a convict of many
a man and especially many a lawyer on whom
a plain representationany such considerations as the above of the mischief rooted inlling from
the shape ofgeneral insecurity would have more disposed
to give the utmostas far as depended upon him expression to arbitrary power in
such hands there to apply any to it.
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