commonly called “Gypsies,” (in old English statutes,) are counterfeitrogues, Welsh or English, that disguise themselves in speech and apparel, and wanderup aud down the country, pretending to have skill in telling fortunes, and to deceive thecommon people, but live chiefly by filching and stealing, and, therefore, the statutes of1 & 2 Mar. c. 4, and 5 Eliz. c. 20, were made to punish such as felons if they departednot the realm or continued to a month. Termes de la Ley .Ei incumbit probatio, qui dieit, non qni negat; cum per rerum natnram factumnegantis probatio nulla sit. Theproof lies upon him who atlirms, not upon him who denies; since, by the nature ofthings, he who denies a fact cannot produce any proof.Ei nihil turpe, cui nihil satis. To himto whom nothing is enough, nothing is base. 4 Inst. 53.
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