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Of the Statute Law – The Kinds of Statutes – enlarging and restraining. B. Ch.
precision similar to what our Author has manifested
in the use of them, one might venture to intimate
to him, that unless he could have enlarged his comprehension of the subject, he
might e'en as well have restrained himself from
upon speaking of it.
⊞ ⊞ The accuracy of this division being out of question, by carrying it however, through By carrying this division Allowing the of by any through the whole
body of remedial Statutes in general, our
Author has cut out work for himself, which
if he the any one should be unkind enough to put
him to, I cannot help having some misgivings
of his being able to go through. No such Statute being both at once an enlarging and a restraining
Statute, every Statute however is either one
of t'other. Of consequence, if any such Statute
whatsoever were to be proposed, he our Author with the
same precision he has manifested in the examples
he has himself produced, him could tell us,
of which of the two sorts it was. This however,
even to our Author, would give I doubt, some
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