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they must be accommodated to the emerging contingencies of the fact. Hence you may very frequently find it recorded in the monuments of the founders of the law that "The law is placed in the cause," l. 52. §. 2. in fin. pr. ff. ad l. Aquil. and must be constituted from the matter, l. 1. §. 3. ff. ad l. Cornel. de sicar. l. 34. ff. de N. G. (See the author Partheny, litig. lib. 2. cap. 13. n. 12.) Of these, however, as if they were implicit and for the most part deceiving even the most prudent, l. 52. in pr. ff. pro soc. l. 2. ff. de iur. & f. ignor. there is no presumption. And therefore they require the light of proof, and are left to be determined by the most equitable pleasure and discretion of the Judge, l. 12. §. 2. ff. de captiv. & postlim. revers. 2. F. 23. vers. At ne videar & c. Gayl. 2. obs. 13. n. 3. Vmmius n. 8. in pr. Gæddæus ad l. 99. §. 2. n. 3. ff. de V. S. Rauchbarus p. 1. q. 47. n 26. Infr. th. 5 lit. X. in hypoth. Nor does it matter whether the occurring business is criminal or civil, l. 4. C. de edend. l. vlt. C. h. Vmmius n. 19. even if a different accuracy of proving is applied on either side, as will be taught in the lower th. 5. lit. Z. Therefore, by a very long interval are removed things that are expedited, evident, and notorious, cap. 15. caus. 2. q. 1 cap. 9. ex. de accusat. l. 4. C. de fideiuss. l. 137. §. 2. in fin. ff. de V. O. because they abhor solicitous and curious investigation, and cannot be covered or veiled by any cloak or color, h) Heringius d. tr. cap. 27. p. 1. n. 81. Mascardus concl. 75. n. 8. Berlich d. p. 1. concl. pract. 26. n. 13. Understand this as notorious regarding a permanent and continuous fact, not equally so regarding a transient or momentary fact, Sichardus ad Auth. qui semel, C. quomodo & quando &c. n 19. Gayl. 2. de pac. publ. 3. n. 17. Mynsing. 6. obs. 3. n. 16. Anton. Faber lib. 9. Cod. tit. 7. defin. 4. n. 6. i) By the broad acceptance of which we wish to comprise every proof cleverly invented for instructing the cause and for laying open the evidence of the thing, arg. l. 13. C. de non numer. pec. cap. 10. ext. de V. S. VVesenb. in παρ. ff. h. n. 2. Sichardus ad rubr. C. eod. n. 3. just as is also found to be set forth concerning instruments, in l. 1. ff. de fid. instr. & l. 99. §. 2. ff. d. V. S. Treutl. vol. 2. disp. 5. th. 1. lit. A. k) Arguments are therefore rejected if they are weak, mutilated, and less conducive to producing belief, if they lack proper supports, Schurff cent. 2. conf. 52. n. 7. & conf. 60. n. 2. Amplissimus & Clariss. Præceptor Dominus Arumæus lib. 2. decis. 2. n. 12. & decis. 10. n. 44 Vmmius n. 15. Donellus 25. comm. 5. lit. E. vbi Hillig. Mascardus q. 2. n. 27. since no doubtful thing is apt for removing ambiguity, l. 12. §. 2. C. de edif. priv. Hering. cap. 24. n. 90. cum seq. Musculus d. tr. class. 1. memb. 2. n. 351. and one who is doubting and ignorant is considered to walk at an equal pace in the application of the law, l. 22. §. 2. in pr. C. de furt. m) l. 3. & 4. C. h. t. Mascardus q. 2. n. 18. But proof is undertaken (with reference made to the final cause, which defines any thing most aptly of all, Colerus d. tr. p. 3. cap. 9. n. 1. & 4. seqq. Gæddæus ad l. 223. in pr. ff. de V. S. n. 2. Heringius cap. 16. n. 3. & seqq. Cubach in Brocard. general. cap. 10. Brocard. 14. & 15. Infr. th. 7. in pr. not.) so that it may be shown to the Judge that what the adversary denied is true; not, however, to the adversary. For to him it would never be sufficiently proven, even if one were to hold the Sun itself in his hands for the sake of showing the truth, Vmmius n. 23. Pfeil centur. 2. conf. 125. n. 48. to the Judge, I say, l. 12. in fin. ibid. l) Accursius lit. E. ff. h. l. 1. C. de condict. ob turp. caus. For this is understood sufficiently from the thing itself. For since he alone is the one in the judgment whose judgment and approval we await, to whom else should we think it ought to be approved? Donellus 25. comm. 1. And therefore he, by using an interlocutory sentence as the efficient cause, ought to decree and impose the proof upon one or the other of the parties, cap. 9. in pr. ibi, interloquendo decrevimus, ext. h. t.