55 able long to maintain their judicial power on such a condition. It was safer and more convenient to make them work their own destruction as it were, than completely to abolish their judicial authority by a more positive law. 4til, By this law the king is virtually constituted a Supreme Judge, not a mere fountain of mercy, but a. fountain of justice : he might enhance the se- verity of a sentence, as well as mitigate it. The words of the Code are—“ Unless the king, with “ the advice of the most prudent men, shall otlier- “ wise decide.” 5th, That this reform of the law respecting Juries, was considered by king Magnus as a point of paramount importance, appears from the fact, that in the code which he published for Iceland,* —a country which a few years previously had, of to his ambition, the latter to his interest. Do not Jurors dread a reproof from the Bench ?—Such was not the case in Norway. There was no Crown Prosecutor—no sum- ming up—no address from the Bench—no telling to the Jury what their verdict ought to be—neither hypothetically nor categorically. The Lawman was indeed, by king Magnus, made a presiding Judge ; but he did not occupy the whole province of his new authority in one day. He could not but recollect, that hitherto the Lawman had been a mere Hyspav, and he would not attempt at first to prejudge every case that occurred. He knew that eventually the case would come to him,—lie needed not go a step to meet it. Authority is not busy or bustling, but quiet like a mandarin; it holds the end of Jove’s golden chain with its little finger, while the lower powers ineffectually struggle at the other end— “ TidiTt; S’ s|«5rrEir5e $£ol, 7TU7XI r£ II. 0. 20. * The Johns Book.

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