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Excerpt from Argument of the Hon. William Smith, in Giving Judgment on the Case of the Hon. Mr. Justice Johnson, in the Court of Exchequer, on the 7th of Feb. 1805
Another enactment, of the fourth faction of the profcnt katute, fceuvls to favour my opinion, thit the cafes which parlitment hdd tn contem piation, were thd'c ofperl'ons who hail been in Great Britain; and batting there ofentled, ré moved afterwards to Ireland.
The'pn?'age to which lallttde is that, B; which the Britilh Magilirate is authorized to proceed with regard to ?ash pcdon, when brought before him, as if he had been legally apprehended in England or Scotland.' -that is to fay, a'sifhe had not quitted the country, of which he vidaled the kw.
Exceptitig the few digrcfive retnmks which have jull: occurred, I have hitherto confined my it, not only to the fourth faction of the 44th of the King, but to its mere enac'ling puts; without drawing any arguments from its pre amble, or recitals.
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