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Show [12] [ I3 ] fore an] mynl: for though the purport z'qnz'ty, even to a fundamental maxim, ( r 3) 'vz'z. " It is INIQUITOUS for any one to " ne a judge in 192's own caufe." Partialz't)Y is, therefore, fuch an abomination in the eye of the law, that no Power on earth can make it LAWFUL: for " even " an .45? of Parliament" (fays the learned Judge Hobart, Rep. 87.) " made a- of any law, (0 made, be in itfelf per- fectly ja/l and egzn'taéle, yet it becomes otherwife (11) (that is, nnjznl and ini- gnz'tous, and therefore unlawful) by the want of thefe neceffary legal Formalltz'es (12) of Reprefentatz'on and Afint : for if the inhabitants of one part of the empire might determine a queflion, or enact a law, for the peculiar advantage only of that one part, though to the manifeft detriment and injury of [met/Ber part, Without the Reprefintaz‘z'on of the latter, the former part would be made judges in their own an 9 5 a circumflance that would be literally partial l the very reverfe of juf'tice and natural equity, and which mull, therefore, be efieemed Ininnit}, (1:) " @i aliquid fiatueritpnr'e inaudira altera, ce- " gainf't NATURAL EQUITY, as to make " a man judge in Ms own cafe," (the example, obferve, is the very point in queftion) " 2's VOID in 2'tfelf,' for "jura na- " turm funt immutabilia," and they are " leges legum." Every King of England (apparently for the fame reafon) is refiramed by the Law from changing or making new Laws " without the aITent or confent of h1s " WHOLE KINGDOM in Parliament ex‘ ‘ prefled. " qumn licet dixerit, Inm'zrgnmnfece:1t " Princip. Leg ct fl? quit. p 90. or - " muda'yuusjaerz't. " 6 C0. 52. (1:) " Farina lrgalz': forma r enn'alix." 10. Co.- 1 , ~ mid " Forma non oofervat a Infertur adnnllatx1" aim." 12 CO. 7‘. 100. efl'e judi(13)" " Iniquum ell aliquem rei fui judcxfl' Prinw " cem.' - " In prepria caufa nemo 41. cipia Legis et AiqUitatis, p. |