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Mar. 1809 1
Press. Judge's opinion — Introduction

§§.1. Introduction.

1.
Of Judge-made law,
a portion composed of
determinate words and
having for its authors
determinate persons
is a rare phœnomenon

2.
— the more interesting
the one in question on
account of its overhanging
the vital part of
the Constitution. p.1.

3.
Its purport as announced
by its title.
p.1.

4.
Persons by whose
orders, and for whose
more immediate use
it was framed, the
Lords. p.2.

5.
Had it been from
them alone that obedience
to the law so laid
down wod be exacted,
disobedience punished
this republication wod
not have been made.

6.
But the persons whose
fate is disposed of by it
are the whole people.
p.2.

7.
And to no one of
them except by a
rare accident — viz a
copy's chancing to get into
the hands of a non-noble
reader, has any
possibility of being acquainted
with it been
yet given. p.2.

8
Under the fee-gathering
system — Use of Judge-made
law — a net to
catch litigants. p.3.

9.
Statutes would not
have been buyable but
for the job. p.3.

10
When obedience is
preferred to transgression
the means are known
& practiced.

Witness property and
assessed Taxes. p 3.

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Date_1	1809-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-10
Box	026	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	032	Info in main headings field	press judge's opinion introduction
Image	001	Titles
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	8765
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