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SECT. VI. Municipal Law.
"what to look upon as his own, what as
An accurate judgment may not be thoroughly satisfied
with this picture: but the eye sense at least is pleased
with it, and the heart is warmed.
I know not to what purpose In the midst of
this paragraph on notification he brings in† † hinterlands comes in an
account of that sort of Law which is called
an exp ex-post-facto Law: For To what purpose
I know not, unless it be to shew with
what celerity he can heap‡ ‡ redouble contradiction upon
contradiction. This sort of Law he mentions as
an unreasonable sort of Law on account of
it's not being notified, forgetting that what he had said was saying
in this very paragraph, that that what is given for a Law, not notified
is no Law at all. He then gives an instance [out
of] from Cicero; which instance [stands excluded by himself]⊞ ⊞ he had already excluded from being
a Law on another account: as being [a Law
made] against a particular person one person and no more.
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