After argument in a full Court (but Judge YEATES being now absent, owing to indisposition) the Chief Justice, on the 17th of January 1807, delivered the following unanimous opinion.
TILGHMAN, C.J.
The case turns entirely upon the construction of the 20th section of the act, "to alter the judiciary system "of this commonwealth." Where the intention of the legislature is clearly expressed, it must prevail, whatever may be the consequences. But, in the endeavour...
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