26 April 1805

Evidence

Ch. Ends

'. Procedure what

General ends

To declare that in this or that case punishment or satisfaction shall or will be administered would be an operation /arrangement/ without /use or/ effect or use, unless certain determinate individuals /persons/ were fixed upon and appointed, as the persons by whose hands or by whose orders the operation shall in /on/ each several /particular/ occasion be performed. The persons the public functionaries by whose orders the operation is thus performed, are termed Judges: say in the abstract, and to save the continual repetition of details respecting the number the Judge. The functionaries by whose hands, or by whose orders in execution or under the control of superior orders issuing immediately from the Judge, the operation is performed, are or may be termed by a common appellative, subordinate or ministerial or executive officers of justice: or in the abstract as before, a subordinate, or ministerial, or executive officer of justice.

In so far /On each occasion, as often/ as punishment or satisfaction is thus administered as above, a service, it is evident, is rendered: a service which is such with reference to in each case the person or persons, to whom the enjoyment of the correspondent right is thereby secured, in so far as it is capable of being, and actually is secured