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SECT. Parts of a Law. (36
Sanctional
Without other La
Of the distinguishable parts in a Law there is one as it happens,
that may tho' not absolutely of itself, yet without
Without the
the other parts [of the same whole] possess a
certain degree of efficacy. But this part is not
that he mentions. It is the Declaratory Directory: it is
not the Sanctional. The Directory part, it is true,
in ordinary most cases would be not at all, or but
weakly efficacious effectual : but in some, as we have already
intimated, it may be, and is sufficiently
very tolerably.
efficacious. At any rate it is intelligible: it is
something. The Sanctional without the directory
is nothing. "Steal-not;" is something: is intelligible:
it is a will expressed. It may or may not be observed. it may or may not be effectual. And this is a directory part without a Sanctional. But "Ifyou shall be
hanged if.... This has no meaning : it is nothing:
it is no will expressed: there is nothing to observe.
And this is a Sanctional part without a directory.
Yet our Author makes something of it. How?
It is worth while to observe
In like manner the remedial part of the Law as
he perhaps would call it; (the cluster of subservient
or Adjective Laws tacked onto this in common with many
other single Laws of the kind that I would call
Radical or Substantive,) of itself is nothing: tho' the directory
Substantive Law to part of the Substantive Law, much more
that Substantive Law entire is something. Let the
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