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25 STATUTE LAW. Kinds of Statutes. Public and Private.

utterly unable to give: however I can give a legal rea—
son. The statutes made in one, if there are
a hundred of them, as there are are sometimes more, are
in Law but are. This one when printed makes generally a good handsome  : and is divided into so many
chapters; which to vulgar eyes appear, and try vulgar
months of and may even sometimes by learned months in
condescension to vulgar ones, are spoken of, as so many statutes.
These chapters it is plain ought not to have any
other division: for this might make the book in
some respects like other books; by which it would might be
in danger of being intelligible. For the same reason
there saw divisions that it has, ought not to be taken no—
tice of: but the statute in the start legal sense of the wordas the practice is,
to be referred to in the , by the year of the
reign in which it passed. Now there not being much
above a hundred of these volumes (to speak of Public
statutes) and every public one of them, as we have
seen, concerning every body, every body is supposed that judges to have
have got them all by heart: then which nothing can be
more easy. [a] This being the case, for the Defendant
to take the Plaintiff the contents of a Law which

NOTE

in [a] "Private Statutes", says Gilbert +

B. CH.

+ Law of Evil. p.12

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