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9.
— question
may go unpunished: that the general
thread of the law in question may in
the instance in hand go unexecuted.
10.
The mischief of receiving evidence if
voluntary, or of compiling it if involuntary
may in certain cases rise to such a degree
as to equal or exceed the mischief
of such a proportion of the danger of chance impunity as
results from the acquittal of the transgressor.
11.
Under one and the same term Evidence
Evidence
{The Fact
{The Relator
are perpetually confounded two distinct
articles things of consideration: 1st the phaenomena
themselves that are attested / : ie: judicially
related) 2nd The person who attests
them.
12.
Signs of Phaenomena are either words
or tokens. Words are either spoken,
or written, either sounds or characters.
When they are sounds, they are explained
by the gestures of the person where
found, they are. there are other means that are convenient: i.e. these gestures. When characters
the gestures are not apparent: then, characters
are the sole signs.
The operation given to these characters
is given to them as the expression of the
ideas of the person, by whom they purport
to have been made or to have been adopted.
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