The judge is agent, the party is patient, and the same person cannot be both agent and patient in the same thing; but it is the same thing to say that the same man may be patient and agent in the same thing as to say that he may be judge and party, and it is manifest contradiction.
Sumner articulates the contradiction of a person being both judge and party in a legal matter, emphasizing the need for separation.
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