It is deliberate purpose that constitutes wickedness and criminal guilt. This second kind is equity. The worse of two acts of wrong done to others is that which is prompted by the worse disposition. Other ways of computing the comparative badness of actions. How laws may be discredited or upheld, according as it suits the litigant.
Ancient witnesses are more trustworthy than contemporary.
How contracts, and evidence given under torture, may be belittled or represented as important.