Footnotes
[54]
It is not sufficient in the courts of justice of that
kingdom that the evidence be of such a nature as to satisfy the judges; there
must be a legal proof; and the law requires the deposition of two
witnesses against the accused. No other proof will do. Now, if a person
who is presumed guilty of high treason should contrive to secrete the
witnesses, so as to render it impossible for him to be legally
condemned, the government then may bring a hill of attainder against
him; that is, they may enact a particular law for that single fact. They
proceed then in the same manner as in all other bills brought into
parliament; it must pass the two houses, and have the king's consent,
otherwise it is not a bill: that is, a sentence of the legislature. The
person accused may plead against the hill by counsel, and the members of
the house may speak in defence of the bill.
[55]
Legem de singulari aliquo rogato,
nisi sex millibus ita visum. — From Andocidis,
"De Mysteriis." This is what they call Ostracism.
[56]
De privis hominibus latæ. —
Cicero, De Leg., iii. 19.
[57]
Scitum est jussum in omnes. -- Ibid.
