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which it stood. There were two ways of doing this:
1. So to frame the bills in the first instance as to exhibit
the law exactly in its present state; 2. So to frame
the bills in the first instance as to exhibit, not merely the
law in its present state, but that improved state likewise to
which it was proposed to bring it. The second mode was
preferred, limiting, however, the improvement to the condensation
of the Language, and leaving other improvements
to future stages, Accordingly, each bill first Recited the
present state of the law, in order to furnish the legislature
with a correct map of the field upon which they were
about to enter, and then Condensed and Reformed the
Language of the Recital, marking by Notes the Section or
Sections of the Recital which was or were Condensed. The
Recital was to have been struck out on the Commitment of
the bill. (e)

3. Another set of Bills were to have been introduced at
the same time, in Amendment of the law; in amendment,
namely, not of its language, but of its Substance; for
example, making documents which confer, or are evidences
of right or authority, the Subject of Larceny; defining
what in Burglary shall deemed Parcel of the house; and
so forth.

4. These last-mentioned bills were to have been passed,
one by one, as they completed their several stages and

(e) I did this with a bill introduced into the House of Lords in
1825, but the Chancellor would not allow it to be read, being a
deviation from the form that had hitherto prevailed.

Identifier: | JB/011/200/014 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1	1826	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	200	Info in main headings field
Image	014	Titles	a letter to the members of the different circuits
Category	printed material	Number of Pages	23
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	3897
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