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Of the Statute Law. Kinds of Statutes.

We now come to our Author's third Section: of
which the business is to divide the whole body
of our English Law into two large branches,
the Statute Law otherwise called the Written
Law, and the Common Law otherwise called
the Unwritten. Each of these is then pursued
through two or three stages of subdivision: though
not so far as to descend any where to particular
articles, unless where they are adduced in the
way of exemplification to illustrate the character
of each class. The Section then concludes with
a set of rules, ten in number, for to guide us in the construction
of Statutes, that is, of being the articles that of which is
the Statute Law is composed.

Tis of the Common Law he speaks first, probably
as having come first in order of existence. For
first in order of existence it certainly did come: tho
probably not under any such name as Law: a
word which seems hardly to it should seem could hardly have been called for, till
it was wanted to express an idea, that had for
its archetype a some sensible symbol of the Legislator's

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