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STATUTE LAW. Kinds of Statutes. Public and Private.

As to Private Statutes, as they do not concern every
body, the persons whom they do concern are not
supposed to have them by heart: therefore they must
be made to read them. Now of a man is to read
a statute, it is infinitely better he should be made
to read it upon paper than in justified print.
copy: because a paragraph written is a beautiful
Law hand, just two and seventy words in a
page in with only here and there a contrac—
tion is so much easier to read than a printed copy;
and stands so much better a chance of being exact
to the original, than one copy of the same imperfection
does to another. I will appeal to our Author,
whether if all statutes, Public as well as Private
were to be east into numbered articles, as for example the muti—
ny Act is, ☞ and any number, as there was
occasion, was to be referred to in the pleading, whether
pleading Law would not be a little somewhat the non intelligible
and a good deal the less expensive; and in short
whether the whole foundations if it, (.being a Castle, +) would not be sub—
verted.

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Identifier: | JB/028/098/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 28.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	028	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	098	Info in main headings field	statute law kinds of statutes public and private
Image	002	Titles	note continued
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b26 / b27
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	9363
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