text:  It is certainly possible for an anxious straining ingenuity to _imagine_ such cases; and where is the rule of law which in the infirmity of human institutions cannot be shown capable of occasioning _possible_ mischief and injustice? One important distinction has not we venture to think been kept constantly in view by the House of Lords in arriving at their recent decision; we mean the distinction between _defective_ counts and _unproved_ counts