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can possibly render them legal, just, and binding, in any other part of the world; so that it must necessarily appear, that no new acquired Territories, settled by British Subjects, can legally be taxed by English Acts of Parliament, nor be bound thereby in their internal Government without such manifest injustice and iniquity as must necessarily render null and void all such pretended Acts; for, otherwise, if they were admitted, they would render all the temporal hereditary possessions and property of the Subjects in the Colonies entirely uncertain, which is one of the most odious circumstances in the eye of the Law that can be mentioned. “quod certum turn est retinendum est, quod incertum est dimittendum: Nay, quod incertum est nihil est: This is the censure of Law upon all the Acts of Men which fall under the judgement of the Law. If then the Law so judge of the Acts