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14) STATUTE LAW. Ki Kinds of Statutes.

Lords spiritual and temporal and commons in
parliament assembled) "The oldest of these" (continues
"he) now extant, and printed in our Statute Books
"is the famous Magna Carta, as confirmed in
Parliament 9. Hen. III. Now it is as certain as
any part of history, and stands mentioned for
ward by himself, that the Commons had no
in that transaction: if by Commons be
meant, men sitting by election, and acting in
the right of others.

Though doubtless," he can't adds, "then were many
"acts before that time, the records of which are
"now lost, and the determination of them perhaps at
"present currently received for the maxims of the
"Common Law."

From this word doubtless," ☞ the student would little think
as the case is, that we have Articles of a prior date are still
extant and published, in no small number supporting upon the face
of them to be as much Statutes as the Magna
Charta: + These from the records of them being
lost, are less to stand upon the common evidence
of history: and probably it is, from that reason probably

☞ the statute of
which the natural ef—
fect is to induce
doubt, which it pro—
seses to exclude it.

+ NOTE The latest and
edition of him is by
Wilkins in 17...

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