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Adultery was found proved, though not any two of the witnesses concurred in the same individual act; for in such crimes which allow of reiteration of acts, all proceeding from the same animus, like so many links of a chain, the semiplena probatio of every one fortifies the whole, and makes it equivalent to the full proof of two concurring witnesses to one specific act; which must hold, especially where the pursuit is not capital, but, as in adultery, to annul the marriage only, or restore the jointure.
