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any particular point, a Verbal Index has been subjoined,
referring as well to the body or text of the work, as to the
notes below.
And a Peroration or Summary has been given, in a few
pages, of the whole of what previously had been detailed
at length.
Another object has been, to render it useful to those
engaged in the Administration of Justice, by giving a view
of the whole doctrine of law, and by rendering any reference
to the Statutes, Reports, or Authoritative Writers, unnecessary,
since they will all be found in this Code.
And another — to furnish a document in which the whole
body of the law, upon any given subject, may be found,
whether the information be sought by the Historian, the
Antiquarian, or the Lawyer.
Finally, — the time must ultimately arrive when, at least,
the Criminal Common Law will be reduced to Writing; and,
to this end, a Code of this description is a necessary preliminary.
This, no doubt, will be a great Innovation; but
with respect to innovation, the Principle is submitted to be
this: — There is no state of things to which objections may
not be raised, and in which deficiencies may not be clearly
and distinctly pointed out; but it does not therefore follow
that we must set ourselves to reform it: because, though it
be plain that, in one of view, a benefit will result, yet,
in another, the reform may produce a greater inconvenience.
If it be too much to assert, that it is only when the effects
which a given innovation will produce can be distinctly
predicated, or the worst evil that can happen can be known,
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