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Also said, the man who is in the Custody of the Fowzdar, is in Fact not subject to the Jurisdiction.
Question by me John Hyde. Suppose a Native British Subject resident in Calcutta, should hire three assassins not subject to the Jurisdiction to Murder a Man, and they should Murder him in some place out of this Town of Fort William; those assassins could not be tried in this Court: must the British Subject who hired them escape unpunished?
It may possibly be answered that those three assassins would be subject to the Jurisdiction of this Court by
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