L I B. VIII. Of the Advancement of Learning, 311 



APHORIS M xci. 



To Feel and found Judgements by feigned Caufes and Perfons,that 

 by this meansj men might find out what the Courfe and proceeding 

 of Law will be, we approve not ; for it difhonoureth the Majefty of 

 Laws, and is to be accounted a kind o^ prevarication or double deal- 

 ing 5 ind it is afoul jight to fee places of judicature to borrow any thing 

 from tbejiage. 



APHORIS M XCIL 



Wherefore let, as well the Decrees, as the anfwers and Counfds pro- 

 ceed from the Judges alone: thofe of fuits depending 5 thele of dif- 

 ficult points of Law, in the general. Require not thefe Deciftons, 

 whether in caufes priniate or publick, from the Judges therafelves, 

 (for this were to make the Judge an Advocate) but of the Prince^ or 

 otthe State. I'rent thefe let the order be direfted unto the Judges: 

 and let the Judges thus authorized, hear the reafonr on both fides 5 

 both of the Advocates or of the Committees, deputed by the parties to 

 whom the matter appertaineth 5 or of them affigned by the Judges 

 themfelves ^ if neceffity fo require : and weighing the Caufe,let them 

 deliver the Law upon the cafe and declare it. Let thefe verdi&s and 

 connjels, be recorded and notified amongft Cafes adjudged, and be 

 of equal autboritj. 



Of Preleclions. 

 APHORISM XCIIL 



LEt the Leisures ofLaw,2nd the exercifes of thofe that addrefs them- 

 felves to the ftudies of Law, be fo inftituted and ordered, that 

 all may tend rather to the laying afleep, than the awaking of Quefti- 

 ons and Controverfies in Law. For (asthe matter is now carried} 

 a School is fet up, and open amongft all, to the multiplying oFaU 

 tercations and ^ejiions in Law-) as if their aim was only to make 

 oftentationof wit. And this is an old difeafe5for even amongft the 

 Ancients, it was, as it were, a glory, by Sefts and Faftions, to 

 cherifh rather than extinguiJJj many quejiions concerning Law, Pro- 

 vide againft this inconvenience. 



Of the Inftability of Judgements. 



AP HORISM XCIV, 



IVdgements become incertain, cither through immature and tooptt" 

 cipitateproceedingtofentencety or through Emulation of Courts j or 

 throughiU and unf^lfulregifhing of Judgements i, or becaufe there 

 is a too eajie and expedit way open of Reverfing and Refcinding them. 

 Wherefore it muft be provided, that Judgements ifliie forth not with- 

 out a Jiaid deliberation had afore-hand j and that Courts bear a Rcve- 



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