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Common Unwritten Law.

"acquiring and transferring property; the solemnities
"and obligations of contracts; the rules of expounding
"Wills, deeds, and Acts of Parliament; the
"several species of temporal offences, with the manner
"and degree of punishment; and an infinite

Having got these specimens, we are not enabled as far
as they T2 the 208 2 720go to form a judgment how for what he
has said of it is applicable.

"number of minuter particulars, which diffuse themselves
"as extensively as the ordinary distribution of common
"justice requires. Thus, for example, that there shall
"be four superior Courts of Record, the Chancery, the
"Exchequer King's Bench, the Common Pleas, and the
"Exchequer; ... that the eldest Son alone is heir to
"his Ancestor ... that property may be acquired and
"transferred by writing; that a deed is of no validity
"unless sealed and delivered; ... that Wills shall be
"construed more favourably, and deeds more strictly;
"... that money lent upon bond is recoverable by action
"of debt; ... that non breaking of the public
"peace is an offence, and punishable by fine and
"imprisonment; ... all these are doctrines that
"are not set down in any written Statute or Ordinance,
"but depend merely upon immemorial usage,
"that is; upon Common Law, for their support.

The articles above specified, our Author it should seem has chosen
as being of the number of those that are most important
and most striking. And in this view the collection he
has made is certainly a judicious and instructive one

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Folio number	118	Info in main headings field	common law
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