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are reasosn for confirming such a Judicature strictly within it’s proper bounds. And I will add, not merely as matter of curiousity, that men in France where civil liberty has not been less vigilantly defended as in England; it is held by writers on Jurisprudence, (particularly by Mr. de Vouglans in his Institutes an Droit Criminal,) that the
[in sidebar: part IV. Chap. 2.]
Jurisdiction of courts martial is one of those extraordinary Jurisdictions, which can not be extended beyond those persons & those matters for which they are established. – So Bynker shock Quest” Juris private Lib: 1. Cap: 13. [prout]
Here read the 2 first sections of 27 Geo: 2 (Compy’s Mutiny Act) & the other parts which are marked to shew that if this Stat: is construed strictly
and