JUDICIAL AUTHORITY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 77, 24 December 1907, Page 9

JUDICIAL AUTHORITY.

"New customs, thouglisthfey^bo-'never -'so' ridiculous, . .r-vur.r;.; ur'i Nay, let 'em bo unmanly,"yot'-'ftrtlfollowedi"' .•'o/vi' Sir,— Nothing is' miro; -essential; to the happiness of n peoplo cfcliuis a wiso distribur tion of judicial authoritiyhi-'lndividualß may, by tho malice of oth;(>rs, ir ..bo ..subjected to cruelty and Uias been found., tp be an of, hardening rather thau [subdumg'i'a \pcpj)lc',j Wo might take a less9n'"frQuv.yio. l ai)ci(:iit. legisjaturcs of, Greece. * jih'oj political influohco of whicJi lt c6nsistoa ( who had discharged tho.duties.pf'.tll'oir/pfticq. with fidelity and intcgfity ; ; mcm-„ bers, except, when convictqd gross injustice, retained'their"places: 3'uring; lifo. Indeed, so strict was the /att-eritioii* with which they, were^watched, ov.^f"-bf r tho people, joined-to. its rigour in "punishing the slightest injustice or cruelty ..of .which ,they wero guilty. ,'Y.'J'" r \;±' >1' The Areopagus _ punished.' 6n'o.'of,!jis.<Taeijis bers for having Rilled a r lif;tjQ $rd i) , bicli l had, llown for refuge into ,;)iis ~boj;om..'..SSto t re " spectable was this tribunal an'.nfwujnV times',.' that cases were brought ¥efore.it"4ratn'pV'erj;.' State of Greece. So htojas fj t;bp . ijge Demosthenes it was saiil hy ; ;'tliat |nevijn to have been guilty of or! injus" tico, and even'after the Athenians had suiilc urtder Roman yoke, and h'a'd'ceasM'tc(?b6 lclistin'guishable. by genius lor * ; virfcue,"'tjhiis court-' continued to retain the same •rcpufetion li 'for ; integrity.—l am, etc.,;/•' 'fe'I , UDIGNl i l'ictoli, Decbmber 20? : ' , ' < . Ii; a InijS-'l--: .SiVisiiiljil