Congratulations. You found someone in history who actually agrees with you. Alexander Porter Morse. Writing in the late 1800s.
I give you around 30 early authorities, all before 1850, who say the opposite of what you claim, and you ignore them.
Many of whom are EXTREMELY authoritative. Like William Rawle and St George Tucker.
But hey, we’ve got a lawyer from the late 1800s who wrote an opinion piece. That trumps all of the early experts.
It’s as I said earlier. We have 1 pound of evidence on one side of the scale, and 20 pounds of evidence on the other side. You ignore the 20 pounds and claim that the 1 pound outweighs the 20 pounds.
It doesn’t.