Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-02-11


franchiies. Lancaaer, Che&er and Do.-
ham, have thel lepasste cauttss bssh sof
la& and equity, which CLAIM cognizance
Of caules and parties within theif repec-
| tive juriidiaions, even agaiaG thsscourts
at Wefminfef. There are ALTO an in-
| meat. number of cities and towns corpo-
rate throughout the kingdom the courts &
! Judges. Of which, though mere or l-fs IL
.mitsd in their jurildittion, eea,ertain "a
watt variety ofcivil fui... Iherease be-
,ides thefe, the high 'ceurt of admiralty,
| which has an executive juIilaiaioq in mari
time eaules; the courts Of the dwe suui:
verG,ies, the preroestiye ,e9Wt Of the
arch. biihoP of Canterbury, The archispif.
,copal court of York; the diocefaa, and
other eccleGa&ical courts, having ALTO AZ
extenfve juriaiaion of civil nature in
cauies Parliamentary and ,hofs relating to
The distribution of the goods Of lntei-
;ates.
Wales is principality, and its courts
have executive original jurifaittion with.
IN the territory. The great feilions i
the higheit cosrt of the principaiity, from
which writ Of err,r iies 10 the court o,
Kings Bench. The fubordinate court:
and Judges are equally numerous in pre-
portion TO the territory and inhabitants
With that of England. Iomit the courts
of confidence aud Other inferior courts,
and snagiarates alrnoa without snsmber -
From this view, though imperteet,i, is
evident that the eon,pa,ifon attempted
by the honorable gentleman j. by no
means favourable to hit ,copclu6orf The
population of thar country exceeds in
number that of the United States by one.
third, perhaps more, but iis whole ex.
ten. incluive Of Wales, Though not CON-
pretended in the mfr p,ius eieuit,, does
not equal one Of the circuits Of the H.
nired States, under the fyiiem Of 1895 !;
and yet that country employs, it is &C.
lieved, more courts and judges not only
than the government OF the U. States,
bur than all the individual hAtes taken
IN addition. do rot however conceive
that any advantage is TO be derived from
the companion TO the one iide or the
other. The Gtuation Of property an.
civil polity, numerou. and cosplicated
righs., introduced by ancient ufsgss And
fuppor,ed ny laws and habirs, and by in
| serees public and private, may render
| g1eater number of courts and judges, u
more extenGve Judicial. lyRem t,eeeaary
| in one country than in another. i think
il ought 70 be laid wholly oa, Of the
queiilon. - !, r>~..os, ~
1t has been laid that Knowledge Of
the local laws, of the cuAoms and man
ners of the leyeral ftates, IS neceaary to
the judges of the Gupreme courts, and
cannot be difpenled with on appeals in
| cauies ariGng in different parts of the
| union, and that the judges can acquire
| this knowledge in no way but by attend.
ing the circuit courts in the feveral fates.
| But let me oblerve, fir, that the laws Of
the feyeral ttates, which vary from the
common law, are to be found in their
ftatute books, in the decihons of their
court. and their rules of practice, for no
cuRom can as fuch become law, until
it fhall have been adopted by ufages and
eaablifhed by judicial deciGons. All
I thefe may be made to appear on an appeal
| either on the face Of the recoId, in ethe
pleadings, Or in a fpecial verdict, q by
T proper exempli6cation, and will afford the
court in luch cafe a more correct know.
LEDGE, than the recollection of Judge, sf
what he has caught in the hurry and ia.
tigue of the circuit.
| A further objection has been urged
againft the continuance Of the preient
judicial fyaem, from the additional num-
Der of Judge. which it has introduced,
| which, it is iaid, may prove dangerous to
| the Liberties of the country. An honor
| able gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Jack
fon) cited the opinion of an author who
has written on the Britifh contribution,
tina, the gleasee political evil which
could befal a country was the. e1iaeGce
| of large judiciary bodies, aud who had