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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.

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Scitum est jussum in omnes. -- Ibid.