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Common Unwritten Law.

are most important, and most striking. And In this
view the collection he has made is judicious and instructive and
judicious. The misfortune of is, that what he has
said of without distinction of the whole immediately
before and afterwards these examples is with respect to about
half of them, palpably not true. This we shall see
presently: but in the mean time first let us not forget to let us confess our leaving
this obligation to him, that though he has said nothing
to satisfy those doubts that arise concerning the
nature of it the whole and of the its several articles it consists of [that compose
it] doubts which must be cleared up before any
adequate idea can be obtained of its distinguishable
properties, he has furnished us with specimens
I mean those articles that we have seen by the consideration of which we may be enabled
satisfy those doubts [ourselves] to procure that satisfaction for ourselves.

"As to General Customs", says our Author [p.
68] or the Common Law properly so called;
"this is that Law, by which proceedings and de
"in the King's ordinary Courts of Justice are
"guided and directed". One of those Laws, I should would
rather have said: for I suppose the Statute
Law is at least occasionally another. "This", continues he
"for the most part, settles the course in which lands
"descend by inheritance; the manner and form of

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