A Digest of the Evidence in the First (Second) Report from the Select Committee on the State of Ireland - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825. Excerpt: ... had this effect, that in their dealings the peasantry, in moit of them, employ their children, at a very early age, to be their witnesses; and they produce them at at an age that it is actually frightful to look at them. I am, in my conscience, thoroughly convinced, that if a society were instituted to discourage virtue and countenance vice, it would have been ingenious indeed if it had discovered such a system as the assistant barrister-s courty without meaning in the slightest degree to impeach the integrity of the gentlemen who hold that situation in Ireland, (some ol whom are not very competent, to be sure, in point of intellect,) but the appointments of the last eight or ten years have been improving certainly in respect of mental attainment. If I am asked whether it would be practicable to try by jury the number of cases which necessarily come before the assistant barristers at sessions, I should say that the number of cases, in itself, is a great evil; I know that the tendency is to multiply them most unnecessarily; and that in practice, decrees are obtained without a service of civil bill at all; John Brown, for example, wishes to get a decree, and he files a civil bill at the sessions in the name of John Geary or John Sullivan, there is no service of course; he goes in, and though he is the person intending to have the decree himself, he proves the ease, and gets the decree, and goes and makes the distress, and sells the foods, before there is a possibility of discovering the fraud, hat has been attempted to be met by taking the bailiff up lor a capital felony, as for stealing the cattle, or whatever he seized, and when the assizes came on I have seen him indicted for the felony; and he produced the civil bill decree; then rt «as said, it wa...

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