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CERTAINTY INFORM. Ex Officio
But the cause of prosecution may as well happen
in Cornwall or Cumberland as elsewhere — In Cornwall or
Cumberland, a Justice of the Peace or other person
may have done that, with which an Attorney-
General may be order'd to be displaced; for
in Cornwall & Cumberland there are Elections.
I would not be mistaken — I apprehend not that the
malice or of the temerity of any one invested with that
office will be such as to fall any colourable ground or a victim totally
innocent of that wherewith he is charged: it is where
the guilt is doubtful, or tho', certain real plight: where
the measure of Punishment is [inexplicit], & slides
freely within certain bounds: where the circumstances of
the case are such, whereout a man may find something
pleasurable to oppose to the clamour of those who read their
own fate in the punishment of the ; & something to have
Where the obnoxious
person has just overleaped
the boundaries which separate
legal from illegal
& there is no precise
measure for the latitude
of the transgression - to give the consciences of those who are to keep up a counter-claimer:
he may be whipped openly
with ten stripes for
his stripes : & or
with two hundred believed
the curtail
for his - This is what I am
afraid of - Tis this
which every man is exposed to, who with a zeal for doing
what he imagines right, does not always, carry about him
a distinction which shall compare it within the strict limits fraud
of Law.
CERTAINTY.
INFORMATION
Trial at Bar.
ex Jure.
"Mr Atty. said had it been an Information exhibited
by him, he would have had a right to bring it to the Bar if he
had thought fit.
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