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| | Speech to Jury (3) [1841] NSWSupC 38 (13 April 1841) |
 | | And, on the other hand, in the infancy of the system, as in that of other systems, inconveniences and obstacles are to be expected, which, with some, will furnish arguments for its abolition, before even it shall have enjoyed a fair trial. |
 | | Anciently, the decision of cases was left to persons from the ‘vicinage’, as it was called, or, in other words, to Juries in the neighbourhood of the transaction, whatever it might be, because they were supposed personally to have the most accurate knowledge of the facts. |
 | | A man is less likely to persist in a harsh, or unjust claim, or to dispute an honest and well-founded one, in the presence of his neighbours, or those acquainted with him, and by whom he is daily encountered. |
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