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that the result of such a chain of Laws is to
revive the first of them. If he would, then a
Court of Law ought to pronounce accordingly.
Whether it would be of advantage for the Legislature
itself to appoint otherwise, is a different
question.

I must once more confess myself guilty of a
legal heresy. With regard to men, if Secundus
kills Primus, it certainly is not Terkus
killing Secundus, that will bring Primus
back to life again. I see not why it should be
otherwise with respect to Statutes. As I am
not in love with [the notion of multiplying] miracles without necessity,
I see not what reason there is in this case to
suppose a resurrection of the dead. I cannot find it
as difficult to reconcile myself to the notion of
a limbus Statutorum, a middle state between
existence and non-existence, in which Statutes Laws
fato functÆ⊞ ⊞ ready cut and dry, at sound of trump, to [be revived again] start upon their legs again. Qn. Bayes's dead men? are kept [in readiness for to be reanimated.]

Such a notion does better in Virgil[a], I think, than
in Lord Coke. To drop allusions – I should take it

{a] At pater Anchises, secreto in valle reducta
Inclusas animas, superumque ad lumen ituras
Lustrabat, studio ecolens: ... Aen. V.

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