JB/028/092/004

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Of the Statute Law. (4

In order of existence therefore the Common Law
stands first: but in due order of intellection and
instruction, on the order in which it can best be
understood and easiest explained, now that we have the others, it as certainly
comes last. For the notion of the whole together
and much more of the particular articles that
compound it, can by no other means be so well
understood, explained as by showing in what respect it
approaches to the nature of the Statute Law which together
and of the several articles of the common statute Law.
indeed, of we come to particular, there is no
possible means of explaining what it is that
shall be understood to make up an article of
Common Law of a given description, but by
imagining some correspondent article of Statute
Laws that shall represent it. The Common Law
is but the shadow of the Statute Law, although it
came before it. Before any regulation of the appearance of the Statute
Law, were the word "Law" could hardly have been men—
tioned; for what one individual object was there

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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	004	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]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	9357
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