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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 the lights of his untutored reason
be part to & to shame; returned
by his & confounded by the authority of
the wisdom ofLaw, steady and inflexible and laying down to
itself these maxims of prudence from its first
original, & not to be changed from its foundations for
the of the new
half-informed Projectors

To one however, who knows that all this is but
sound, that this maxims have been long
, that all the considerationthis from which all these horrible
consequences are apprehended may be obtained
at any time by him who is able at the same
time that he is willing to purchase it at come up to the price [that
is demanded ] that if it is & , on
one side of he tale it is probably & reasonable
on the other, these afford little

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	026	Info in main headings field	procedure evidence civil
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
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