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(17 STATUTE LAW. Kinds of Statutes. Public and Private.
if he saw it, instead of following it upon our form
precise and serviceable one. To
judge for the be specific of it
that it saw through the whole of Statutes
and divided them into two distinguishable parcels distinct assemblages
This force upon it instance
desirable marks which declared it
of these parcels, and not in no account to the nothing
can be form the truth.
This is the account our Author gives us of a dis—
tinction, as useless if definable, as it is impos—
sible to be defined. That it is impossible to
be defined, is what at least he was
called upon to tell us, instead of possessing to "show"
as "the distinction" by or examples brought in to make us mia—
genè that it was to be defined, and that he had
furnished us with the means. Judges may
say, and may say after them, of
thus Habit, that it is a Public one, of their
other that it is a Private one: but it is
not that can make two kinds of Statutes; which
it is impossible, (as it is) to assign any marks
whereby it can ascertained which of the two
B. CH.
then already was
more than they or any are in would till.
"The differences he knew what
that which he could not
still.
The of this matter
as lawyers in speaking
of Statutes have other been unable to
say there is one a Public one, another
a Private one: one
uniform marks this as a
declaratory
act, and this is a act
This an and
these blasphemy: But
that, which of these named
was to be given to any stat—
ute they had not given
the
the occasion called
upon him
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