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9 OF STATUTE LAW. Kinds if Statutes.
Then takes up a new one, which distributes them
into Decalatory or Remedial, and these last
again into enlarging and restraining: and there
to ends. Of all these in their order. But let
us hear his words.
"Let us next proceed", says he, "to the leges scripte,
"the written Laws of the kingdom, which are
"statutes, acts or edicts" (not that they are ever
"called edicts) "made by and with the King's
"majesty by and with the advice and consent
"of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Com—
"mons in Parliament assembled. W
Why would not our Author write in Rhyme? The
jingle of the words you; then have been a warning
bell to the young student to guard against
deception. The reader and expecting the plain
truth of things would rather be disappointed or
misled: The ream of misinformation false colouring upon laid spread a continual—
ly upon over every object how he backed upon would
have had a continual apology: and "the King's
"majesty" and the like amplifications of college— rhetoric
finds out B CH. I.
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