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STATUTE LAW. Kinds of Statutes. Public and Private.
☞ In the statute 13 and 14 ch Ch. 2. c. 12. A clause for the erecting of a workhouse in mid—
dleses to employing the prior of Middlesex, in Middlesex has been
holden to be a Public clause: + But a Turnpike
Act for Middlesex and other countries in proving laying An act that lays
a tax on travellers from all parts is, it seems
a private one. For an express clause is constant—
ly inserted in all such Acts to give them the
name of Public.
I don't know whether it may be worth while to notice the nothing a small
contradiction there is between what he says here of
statutes, and what he had been saying a few pages
before, of Laws. "A general or Public act (or statute)
"is an universal rule that regards the whole commu—
"nity"... Special or Private acts are another excep—
"tions than rules, being those which only operate upon
"particular persons , and private concerns"...
Still however, if they are statutes; and for the present
Laws; since an act, a statute, is in fact it seems a Law. + This is more
than they were a little while ago. II Then nothing could
be a law but what was "a rule:" nothing "concerning
"a particular person:" nothing but what was "univer—
"sal." Then "the particular act of the Legislative to
☞ To come in at p.
20.
+ Bae. Abridg. iV 640.
from sid. 209.
+ p. 85. "The written laws.
"... which are statutes,
"acts, or edicts"...
II p.44.
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