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 The yudicial System of France. They sit in a splendid court, decorated by the best modern painters. When they demand it, they have a guard of picked soldiers. They

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sacred walls have almost the weight of law, despite the fact that they are often contra dictory. According to circumstances, the

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are dressed in red gowns and ermine mantles. All of them try to appear dignified, and the majority of them are most serious. The ad vocates who plead before them form a body apart from the rest of the bar, and in juris diction the decrees rendered within those

public opinion of the moment, or the vicissi tudes of politics, decisions contradict each other, and the name this court bears invests it with the necessary authority to quash its own decisions. As has been mentioned already, the num