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3 June 1808
3. The third course is manifestly the simplest.
Unfortunately the same cause circumstance which renders it useful
conduces to the interest of the in respect of the end of
justice - induces the acceptance of it proportionally improbable.
It makes none of that business which would
be so soon to be made by either of the others: and
by that commotion is rendered adverse to the only interest
which hitherto ever yet has been - or it appears to be at all
in a way to be, [] regarded as to
a preference in the arrangement of the system of procedure.
Th Employ in the first instance on every occasion that number
which to the lieges in the character of jurymen is least
burthensome: if either part party be dissatisfied with
a verdict thus delivered, there will be and not till then will be the time time enough
for giving increase to the numbers, and with it to the
aggregate of the burthen imposed in this shape upon the
.
Thus in English law, as it stood before the time of the
Commonwealth, twelve was the number of the Jurymen
sitting in the first instance. When under the
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