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"priores contrarias abrogant". Our author is so
well satisfied with any body's notion who lived
a long while ago, especially if they talked in Latin
that it will seldom fail to pass with him at any time for a
reason: and what ground they had for it, is
no matter not worth enquiring about.

Laws then abrogate prior Laws that are contrary:
but this⊞ ⊞ he cautiously advertises is to be understood only when they
really are contrary. "But this is to be understood, only
"when the latter Statute is couched in negative
"terms or by it's matter necessarily implies
"a negative". This [restriction] is what I suppose
nobody will dispute. But when he comes
to give us an example, and by that example
to let us see what he takes to be contrary: I
must think some time again and again before I agree
with him. "As if", continues he, "a former act
"says, that a Juror upon such a trial shall
"have twenty pounds a year; and a new Statute
comes and says, he shall have twenty
"marks: here the latter Statute, though it does
"not express, yet necessarily implies a negative
"and virtually repeals the former. For if twenty
"marks be made qualification sufficient, the former Statute which requires twenty Pounds is

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Folio number	107	Info in main headings field	construction
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
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