26 Jan y 1808

Codification-Jury Trial

Jury Trial

Cutting

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guilty of so doing, and for dealing with him accordingly, forasmuch as for the reason aforesaid it is not be presumed /believed/ of the though upon their oaths they say do, hat they understand what cutting is. To understand what cutting is, it is necessary for a man to be a professionally bred Judge. Accordingly on this occasion what is meant by the word to cut is a question fit to be referred, and referred accordingly to the 10 great Judges.

Though they were all taylors, as cabinet makers or cutters employed in cutting from childhood upwards, still they would not know any of them what cutting is the instant they were put /are shut/ into the Jury-box that knowledge has passed from /out of them/: for him to do[?] presume[?] whatever knowledge has experience may have helped him to [...?] the import of the word cutting a man's seat must be on the Bench.