JB/028/092/003

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Of the Statute Law. Kinds of Statutes.

will: at least a determinate collection of sounds, if
not of characters, the visible & permanent symbols of those
sounds. Before Statute Laws were written, before
any Laws were expressed in writing, in
short before any Laws, any command,
destined for universal and durable obedience were
issued, States being notwithstanding formed, the
people of them were governed⊞ ⊞ as it were from hand to mouth by sets of that
sort of transient and particular rules of which
in great part is composed what is called of stiled the Common
Law: By rules such as those, as far as
they went; and where they were deficient, by
general unauthoritative rules of conduct deduced later framed at hazard
by each individual for himself his own mind, from a
supposed conformity of his case to some one
of such particular authoritative ones as had
preceded.† † had come under his observation. From the observation of some article
in the course of conduct habitually maintained
by those in power, in the issuing of the primary way of its many primary
command, or in the way of Sanctionary command,
in the distribution of their Punishments or their
rewards.

Identifier: | JB/028/092/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 28.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	028	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	092	Info in main headings field	of the statute law kinds of statutes
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b5 b2 / b2 / b3 / b4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	9357
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