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Common Unwritten Law.

We come now to the subject of the Common Unwritten Law,
a subject which al difficult as it is to be understood in itself, and still
more so from what† † has been said of it by our Author, [our Author] he has said of it,
our Author has left, not render'd pregnant with
instruction.

It is almost too much for me to hope to be able to surmount the every
difficulty difficulties in it I have in view is almost too much to hope; at least within
the strict narrow limits of the present enterprize. At
least at any rate however I will deal honestly with the public the reader:
nor decline passing over a difficulty because
I cannot solve it unequal to its solution. Thrice happy if [in concerns
thus important' I can benefit by by any mite of mine my oblation I can add anything to the treasury of public knowledge.
☞ Th still Happy, at any rate⊞ ⊞ in mite a subject of this importance it to be the means of its instruction, tho' it were by the arrival
of my ignorance, or the detection of my errors!

The Statute Law has been The subject of the two
preceding Sections has been the Statute Law. This branch of Law We there suffered it to pass
with the epithet "Written" [prefixed to it]: to which
that of "Unwritten" applied to the branch we
are now proceeding to consider stands opposed.
We took that epithet as being that which our Author
had made it known by. No prejudice ill consequences conveniences resulted
from this compliance our adoption of that epithet. [Though not] characteristic It was not indeed characteristic
but it was not false [the epithet] it was true. not false. Though it convey'd to us
no to any instructive truth, it led us not into error.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	028	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	117	Info in main headings field	common law
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / b2 / f3 / b4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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