Justice
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Excerpt from Justice: A Discourse to the Students of the Law Department of the Indiana University, Delivered at Their Request, on Conferring Upon the Graduating Class Their Diplomas, February 26, 1850 And if. in what I am about to say in reference to this matter, an idea should occur, here or there, which belongs properly to the province of law, and which the honorable Professors of the law have already communicated to you in an abler and better manner, they will not, I trust, charge me with having invaded their province with any felonious intent, but will have the goodness to consider that ideas, like sheep, have naturally a strong propensity to ramble, and that, as the field of morals which it is my official duty to cultivate, lies contiguous to that on which their labors are bestowed, it ought not to seem strange if, on this occasion, some ideas from their side of the dividing line should be found on my side of it. I find, in the Revised Statutes, chap. 53, sec. 22, it has been thus enacted that, every person who shall alter the mark or brand of horse, mare or gelding, mule, ass, sheep, goat, neat cattle, or hog, of another, or mark and brand the same with intent to steal such horse, mare, gelding, mule, ass, sheep, goat, neat cattle, or hog, shall, if the value of the animal or animals so marked be five Collars or upwards, be subjected to the punishment inflicted on those guilty of Grand larceny. As this discourse proceeds, its author is somewhat uneasy for fear of the penalty attached to this statute. No animal exhibited in it, can, he thinks, be valued at less than five dollars. His only hope of escape is founded on the plea, that the mark or brand has in no case been altered, but only a label attached shewing of what sort the creature is, So that if the label should not please, it may be detached, and let the thing run. What, then, is justice? The word has several meanings; and what is true of it in one of these meanings may not be true of it in another. As, if I were speaking of a file a carpenter would think of the instrument which he uses in sharpening his saw; the military captain would think of a number of soldiers stationed in a line; while to the lawyer the word would suggest the idea of some papers placed away in an orderly manner; and to the judge, that of a series of judicial decisions made according to some one principle. Every one sees that what would be true of a file in any one of these four senses, could hardly fail to be false in all the remaining three. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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