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2 Libel
If no answer can be given to any of these questions, it is nugatory evident there can be no ground
to make the constan decision of the question "whether a paper is a libel or no" a
matter of Law competent to Judges rather than to a Jury; since neither can the Judges
here can devise in this case no advantage whatever from their knowledge of preadjudgedpast
nor any future Judges in any future case from the knowledge that in question of this;
If the Judges cannot tell why they this way rather than that, it will be difficult to say what advantage the subject can reap from a decision being [placed] in such hands rather than any other
the only grounds confessed of appropriating the decision of any question to
the Judges in preference rather than to a Jury. Every case being decided The decision in every case being upon no
principles
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070 |
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175 |
libel |
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jeremy bentham |
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