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1784. Sessions. [Monday] Dec. 20.

is founded, and many other Acts of Parliament for punishing with Death other Crimes, not before so punishable, such crimes being unaccompanied with actual Violence, did not extend to this Country, but were adapted only to the peculiar circumstances of England.
Sir Robert Chambers said though he had differ’d from the other Judges, yet he always adher’d to the same Opinion, and was therefore bound in Conscience to deliver
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