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1790. Sessions. [Thursday] June 10.

comment on the Words of your Oath. The obligation of an Oath is according to the meaning of the Power imposing it. An Instance of the Words of an Oath, being restrain’d in their signification by the true construction, occurs in the Oath taken by the Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature, which are to this effect “that they shall Judge and Determine according to Justice and Right” which words might seem to authorise decisions accord=
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