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B. III. Sect. I. Stat. Law. Kinds of Statutes.
since it was not he that made it; only that every
indeterminate he should have said so. An act con—
cerning a whole county Yorkshire for example is a Private Act
but an Act concerning Wales a division not much larger
is a Public Act. An Act limited on a place,
part tho' extending over divers countries: in a sub but absolutely
unlimited us to the persons may concern, I
mean a Road Act is a Private one: while
is a Public one. What do we learn by being
told that the numerous train of regulations in a
Road Act are exceptions rather than rules?
The distinction is raucous and oppressive: for up by
the strength virtue of it a man is made to pay for
some score or some hundred sheets of paper
of words and d for a sheet, before he
can set forth his right: tho' that might be not of
the value of one of those sheets of paper.
His account of it is inexplicit. Of a Private Act He says the
judges are not bound to take notice, as if in
uninstructed person could tell what he meant by
taking notice; and as if judges maybe or might not take
notice, according as they shared. He could have
said that is free, has he said they were bound
not to take notice: and what us intelligible, had
he said, they were bound not to give judgement in
v. Gilberts Law of Evidence
in It's consequences
mischievous
It is account explanation of it
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