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SECT. Municipal Law. Inserenda.
Definition of Law Ex-post-facto
Meantime if mention must be made of ex-post-facto
Laws in season or out of season; there
is one thing relating to them, that had he seen it,
would have been worth telling: and that is,
that the Common Law which he adores,⊞ ⊞ or to speak more accurately the ideal Laws which may be deduced from it, the
Common Law, as such, is but a series of
such ex-post-facto Laws. A word or two short hint
this be there to reflect upon which for the present I leave to the meditation of those in whose power it is
by in taking away that property in them circumstance of the Common Law, which
makes them it the object of just (suspicion) to leave
all those which make it the object of as just a
reverence.
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Definition of Law
Notification –
After all, an account of a sort of a Law called
an ex-post-facto Law is at least as well placed in a
a paragraph on notification, as a dissertation on Civil
Society the origin by and different forms of Government in the midst of a definition of the word
Law.
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Definition of Law
Rule
An expression of Will that relates to a single act, he
will not have to be a Law. It must relate according to his notion of it (if I
wrong him not in attributing to him a notion so precise)
it must relate to a species of notions. A species of actions
is an assemblage of individual actions: individual
actions are therefore what a Law be it what it will
must relate to: for it is individual actions alone that
really exist, the species is but a creature of the brain
Inserenda SECT: Municipal Law. (31)
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