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1827. Novr. 4
Law Amendments.
ult
Propositions
Ch Procedure
§ After Applicatn and Suits
Evidence elicitation
Existing System
Character evidence subpoenas
is
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Absurdity & inconvenience
of subpoenas
to the Judge A hundred pound will you have to pay says the parchment: nothing
at all will you have to pay says truth the practice. Not that he will so surely
have nothing at all to suffer: for at the pleasure of the suffering party if any way be found for putting him there
a prison imprisonment awaits him — imprisonment of which
no warning is given him: imprisonment of which nothing is said.
What is neither known nor so much as suspected by the poor labourer
is either known or not what may be the true thing sufficiently suspected by
the erudite readers of periodicals [by the customer to the Newspaper Shope]
Of the customarily served with subpoenas in one
word and sub-poenaed say who can of how
small proprietor, except for fees and misextracted revenue
receipt of the mandate in obedience to it be of any use
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Vexation & expence
to evidence holders
Profit to lawyers
Alone by the Judge is the requisite statement of the applicant suitor
to no one would the instrument of vexation be addressed of whose
vexation evidence of there was not adequate cause of assurance of the needfulness.
by his aged learned Agent of the party of no
evidence would the address to admitt of in evidence
by to which the smallest chance of needfulness being needful could on reasonable
ground be attributed ascribed. Neither to his client nor to his own conscience
could the zeal and produce of the Attorney
itself if any should any possible proposed witness
be left unsecured by him, any such subpoena left unissued
any fee ungathered.
For character evidence in particular
no bound to the amplitude richness of the that may be reaped.
No situation so exalted than character witnesses — character
witnesses whether they have any thing to say, or nothing may not
for this purpose for so grave a purpose be brought down for it
On two pages conscience would (whether they were no matter) bring down the from
him. Sub poe In this time Subpoena be as
a Subpoena can bring down an Archbishop from his
throne
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