They also to whom jurisdiction is given, are public ministers. For in their seats of justice they represent the person of the sovereign; and their sentence, is his sentence: for, as hath been before declared, all judicature is essentially annexed to the sovereignty; and therefore all other judges are but ministers of him or them that have the sovereign power. And as controversies are of two sorts, namely of “fact” and of “law”; so are judgments, some of fact, some of law: and consequently in the same controversy there may be two judges, one of fact, another of law.
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