2 June 1805
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  • Title: [11 June 1805 EVID. B. Securities.]
    Description: 11 June 1805

    EVID. B. Securities. Ch. Procedure Technical.

    S. Nor confrontation. Falsehood encouraged by law Agents for want of confrontation.

    1.

    English law, incouragement to mala fide suits and defences by the multitude of Law-Agens interposed between the party and the Judge.

    2.
  • Title: [If not, and if it were regarded as one whole]
    Description: If not, and if it were regarded as one whole not to be

    dispensed with, that in one parcel

    of the consolidated 3 per Cents should be paid

    off but on one of the half yearly days in use for the payment of the

    dividends in these Annuities, and that day move

    them in twelve months of

    posterior by one day at least, above a twelvemonth, to the first

    day on which the notice to that effect shall have been made public, the

    consequence will be, that upon the first parcel so paid off the loss of

    time and interest will amount to a full twelvemonth: but

    that, upon

    all subsequent parcels, the loss of time will be

    such, as can not amount to less than a

    a year and a quarter upon the whole. The paying off the

    first parcel say the 25 th of December 1804 the last day,

    on which notice can be made public, will be the 24 th of Dec r 1803. For paying off the

    second parcel the earliest day that can be appointed will be the

    26 th of June 1805. Should a parcel of the

    magnitude required by the Act (£500,000) have come in or been

    made sure by the 25 th of Dec r 1803, notice may be giving appointing, as the day

    of payment in respect of that sum, the 26 th of June 1805: But, on this transaction, 1-1/2

    all but a day, would be lost. If again, by the 24 th of June 1804, a further sum happened to have

    been collected or made sure, and notes given accordingly for the 24 th of June 1805, as before
  • Title: [3 June 1805 Evidence Introd]
    Description: 3 June 1805

    Evidence

    Introd

    Ch. Means

    ' 2. Laws concealed

    In France, in feudal France, the rule of action was rendered intricate and dark enough by accidental causes: little industry was necessary to make it more so.

    There was the whole body of the Roman law imported in the lump. Lay and Ecclesiastical, Imperial and Pontifical. There was the noble army of commentators each striving with his fellows who should make[?] obscurity more obscure, confusion worse confounded. There was the galaxy of customary[?], that is of provincial laws: a separate set for every province, the sovereignty of a guardian[?] petty sovereign swallowed up in the preponderant sovereignty of the descendants of [...?] Capet.

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