Memoirs And Letters of James Kent, Ll.D. : Late Chancellor of the State of New York. Author of "commentaries On American Law", Etc.
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It was not a condi- tion that reflected credit on the jurisprudence of the State ; it was not such as the character and the honor of the State and the interests of the public demanded. The judges, although not distinguished by any marked superiority, were by no means defi- cient in learning or ability ; but it was in a very im- perfect and unsatisfactory manner that their duties were discharged. There was not only a great delay in the determination of causes, — a delay not at all excused by the... multiplicity of business, — but the de- cisions, when pronounced, were far from supplying the requisite proof of a mature consideration. It was evident that they were not the fruit of that careful and laborious investigation which is essential to the proper discharge of the judicial functions ; and the authority they might otherwise have claimed was greatly impaired by those frequent differences in opinion that are the necessary result of imperfect ex- amination and study. It was seldom that the opinions of the judges, even in the most important cases, were reduced to writing, and as no reports were then pub- lished, and no records preserved of the grounds on 1 Supra, p.
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