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EVIDENCE Civil.
It somewhat inconsistent when one thinks of
it
That while people who have no concern in a
dispute are sent for from all parts of the
world o tell what they know about it, the
very persons who know most, the parties the who
theyshould love close under the Courts, are the very persons
who in the Law will not permit even
can never be called upon.
True says the practised Lawyer, but this is on great
wisdom, as knowing on the one hand the great
danger of Perjury, if everyone one were to be permitted
to give evidence in his own behalf
testimony in his own favour: I
on the other the hardship of compelling him to
disclose any thing to his own prejudice.
And how would a poor Layman who should dare
to suggest this from
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