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to be meant by the usage the having recourse to the
dead Statute and using the term revival, is to
to take it as being already penned instead of and already known in some
Bill in some degree or other known, to save the
trouble of a new Bill.
Thus much as to the matter of fact:⊞ ⊞ How What whether it is to the expectation of, of itself is taking to be upon the occasion? concerning
which I speak without any very strong degree of
attachment to the side I see reason to embrace.
The Question of Utility⊞ ⊞ what it were if not that it should be made to be? will admitt I think
of something reasons more decisive
In the first place thus much is manifest; that the
indirect method of revival has can have no advantage over
the direct one: it is as easy to say, that such a Statute
shall be revived, as that such another shall
be repealed. And it has these disadvantages.
What sort of compositions our Statues many of them are,
is but too visible: how voluminous their contents, how
undigested, how multifarious. A hundred long Sections
is no unusual number for a Statute to consist of.
In such a mass a short clause repealing a former Statute
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