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Where the Common Law, pretending to
give a Right, gives no other remedy
then one which is not adequate.
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This is the case in Contracts for specific things to be deliver'dconvey'drender'dor to be done.
of theseFor the default ofnotdoingrenderingor doing as the case is
in of the Common Law provides this remedy: viz:
to much money as 12 indifferent persons
shall judge proper to be given in
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It is plain, that this remedy cannot be
adequate but upon the supposition that
money is a match for any thing; that is,
that money will be a meansto any mandeleted textof providing to
him eitherany apignoble thing
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my 2000; yetit is plain I am yet the supposition
which we 1stwith, it is plain that the
was contribution to me you of something less than 1000
grains of satisfaction, I to-me of something
more: otherwise I would not have rather had the
house than the money, nor you rather the
money than the house. This consideration therefore
abstracted from all other, might induce
the jury to give me a male mater.10
suppose, since somthing must be mentioned.
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What then would the jury do, in the 1stplace supposing
your transaction with the stranger not to appear
would they give me the 10 or the 2000.
certainly the 10 only. for if they give me they would no otherwise
the 1000 my rent lopthan when my
;account which if they were to take, I might
any thing they knew, I in all probability should make to exceed the truth nobody knows to what
amount.
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There then stands the account when all is over
I lost originally 1000 grains; but having received
ten from you in conveyance of the verdict, that
reduces it to 990.mance.
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