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 ¬The rules which govern property of every description through all its transmissions, and which prescribe the forms of legal remedies when it is invaded, cannot he left to the un- settled judgments of the most enlightened peo- ple, without bringing the utrfiost uncertainty upon all inheritances and titles. — These must always be the subjects of written codes, or recorded decisions, which learning alone can treasure up and apply. — The rights of indivi- duals also, and their vindications when violated, must upon the same principles be positively de- fined ; else no man could know what were his privileges, or in what manner to assert them. The people of Armata, from the very earliest times, were as well aware of this indispensable division between fact and law, as geographers are of the line by which they divide the hemi- spheres of our globe, and although invested, in many cases, with the power of deciding upon both, they uniformly respected the rules which referred the law to judicial determination, and the Judges possess all the authorities for pro- tecting their legal jurisdictions. ¬Crimes, ¬