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Tit. v. Chap. VII
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ever do this or any thing else: speak at all: and against our rules,
English practice
what signify your laws?
In the genealogy or English law be-
-gets quibble: and the inconvenience of one ab-
-surdity is covered by another. Those whom
the legislator has commanded them to hear th
Judges will condescned to hear, but it is upon
condition that they are made to believe that
the motives inducements he has held out have been without not been
productive of their effort. They allow A nominal informer
worth their connivance is set up, who is to receive
the reward for information, and the information is to be made good by a witness presents
himself from the contamination of that
reward which the legislature intended for his
hand. Thus then the wisdom of the Common law is
respected satisfied, and the reverence due to her marks
Clap the two branches
of law together, Com-
-mon and Statute
the policy of the laws
shown as is like
paired. On the one hand you they have A presents himself with-
-out here, an agent without a motive, an effect
without a cause; on the other hand information
is received from one who it is pro-
-vided shall know nothing of the matter. +With
+The hint of this po-
-licy seems to be bor-
rowed from
This policy is -
Dig-
-by; sympathetic surgery: ser-
-vice is to be ex-
-tracted from one
man by inducements rewards
applied made
by applications to
the feelings
of another.
all this contrivance what is the real condition
of the witness? If it had not been made his
interest he would never have opened his mouth;
for what should his make him? If it has been made
his interest, he must if interrogated swear the con-
-trary:
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jeremy bentham |
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arthur young |
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