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15 August 1804 Procedure ch
15 August 1804

Procedure

ch. Lawyers' interest

'4 Different ranks

The opposition in this instance between interest and duty is too glaring to have altogether have escaped the notice of the legislator, where any such personage exists /person can be said to exist/ regardless as he commonly is /has been/ to all those points of official duty to which his attention is not inevitably commanded by the purpose of personal responsibility, frequently called into ---, of which he can be regardless without prejudice to his ---- in --- ----. But for the most part even when, and in England more particularly, the state of the ----- seemed to leave no other choice. For /To/ this or that department of judicature, provided it were a narrow one, the situation might be filled by men who had not been advocates. Witness in France /the tribunals composed of/ the judges in Robe courts (military arm) and the consular tribunals, composed of traders, having ------ of deputies arising out of trade. Witness in England the jurisdiction of justices of Peace country gentlemen and magistrates in large towns invested with power of judicature for a miscellaneous variety of purposes regarded as fitting purposes, and the courts called courts of -------, filled by a set of ------ men in here and there a large town to take cognizance of pecuniary demands not ------ in general regarded as trifling.

But for jurisdiction extending over the whole or any considerable part of the field of law, especially in so far as covered /the covering was/ by law in the shape of jurisprudential law, no hand /man/ has ever been regarded as capable of being competent nothing like competence has ever been /for many ages past been ever/ expected to be found in any hand /man/ that had not in the character of an advocate been long and thoroughly exercised in that field. Twenty years at least such
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