The Judge
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A Protest Against Law-Taxes
The judiciary, treated both as a figure of careful deliberation and, allegorically, as complicit with the revenue authorities.
The power of adjudging as between costs and no costs, seldom discretionary:
At the door of a house more predatory than any of those that are called houses of ill fame, the Judge in his robes presenting to unsuspecting passengers a belt to prick in;
The judge and the legislator, deliberating with all gravity, each in his separate sphere, whether to inflict or not this heavy punishment, on this or that guilty individual, or narrow description of guilty individuals.
The Law of Torts
The judicial office responsible for ruling whether evidence is legally sufficient to support an inference of negligence.
“On a trial by jury it is, I conceive, undoubted that the facts are for the jury, and the law for the judge.
The judge has to say whether any facts have been established by evidence from which negligence may be reasonably inferred;
The tendency of modern rulings of Courts of Appeal has been, if not to enlarge the province of the jury, to arrest the process of curtailing it.