30[?] April 1805

Evidence

Ch.1. Ends

'.3. Procedure branches

Particular ends

'.3. Procedure its branches - Particular ends, branches of the general end.

No sooner is the office of Judge established, than a new set of rights spring up, such as without him could not have come into existence.

The money you have at this instant in your purse is yours: you have a compleat right to it. any person who without or against your consent, and without some special and extraordinary title, such as that derived from /constituted by/ a warrant from a Judge, should seize it and carry it off would committ an offence: he would have already committed an offence for /to/ which punishment and satisfaction are or at least ought to be, appointed by the law - by the substantive branch of the law. To prevent him, the law allows you to employ force: and if he can not be prevented otherwise, even such force (at least if the character in which he take it is that of a thief or robber, or[?] who accordingly /as such/ is conscious of his having no[?] right to take it) as shall terminate[?] in /be followed by/ his death /deprive him of life/.

To this money you have already a right - to compleat an already consummated right, conferred on /created and allotted to/ you already by the substantive branch of the law; a right which for its completion requires not any act to be done by the Judge. Under the circumstances above described the taking the money away from you is already an offence, without requiring any act previously done by the Judge, or any body else to render it so.