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The Title of an Indemnity Act 4 G.2.c.6. supposes the neglects
against the consequences of which it indemnifies to have
been incurred through "ignorance of Law" - The way to
cure ignorance is to communicate give bestow information instuction.
At . . . . Assizes ....Circuit . . .
A.D. 176 . . a Man was convicted on the . . .
. . . . . for . . . . . . . . .
At thatvery time there was no such Act in being, it having
been repealed by .. .. . . . . . . .
Is it the Judge on whom we ought to cast the blame
of this misfortune, or the Jurisprudence? This the Public
will be the better enabled to decide when they consider
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that the Parties,Attorneys, Council on both sides acted
for a series of months under the same ignorance, and
when they are informed that this Judge was [the late]
Sr Joseph Yates.
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The very possibility of an event like this would be taken away, if, according to the plan here proposed, there were to be never any more than one Law upon any one subject at any one time - The Law on which a man couldbe convicted would not be this or that Law but the Law.
A similar case happened in 17.J.1. Piescase Hutton 35.
The Deft. had been conviceted on the Statute then
expired 35 El:7. made for limittingthe number of buildings
about London a statute which was then expired.
From the Laws as at present promulgated & composed
all that the bulk of the People can collect concerning
the greater Crimes, is that if a man is guilty of any of
PROMULGATION. Persons punished on expired Statutes.
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