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Of the Statute Law

5) 2)

to which it could be applied. As a system of general
rules, the Common Law is a thing merely imagi—
nary: and the particular commands which are
all that (in the way of command,) there ever was and of it, that was real, can not every
where indeed can seldom, be produced. Tis the
Statute Law then that first suggested the idea
we have (when we have any) belonging to the
word Law. Tis The Statute Law that is this a
body whose of subject the compared I members are familiar to us. we are aquatinted with.
Those members are familiar to us & the idea of
them each one of them has a fixed and accurate
termination in our minds. We see, we hear,
we touch; in short; we handle them. The idea
of each one and of the whole together is positives
it's archetype, sector such as a statute is exerting and before us. We are
in every instance who made it: when where and how
they made it: we call for and have produced
to us at any time the very thing they made.
With the Common Law it is, in every particular
that has been instanced, different. Once more, ☞ what
is the Common Law? What, but an assemblage
of petitions regulations feigned after the image of these

B. CH

☞ to give a gross idea
of it,

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Box	028	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	092	Info in main headings field	of the statute law kinds of statutes
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