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Unwritten Law.

The other on the contrary serves to expresses a limitation of to his power.
What is d wrong done in another man, cannot be
wrong done in him, in this sense that it
is not punishable in him.

On the contrary in the it's other sense it is expressive
of a limitation to of his power.

Whatever is wrong, i:e: an act to which the
powers given to him by Law do not extend, and
cannot be done without coadjutors [for this
limitation must be observed] he is legally and
from thence in general physically disabled from doing
legally, because punishment is denounced by
Law against all such as shall be his coadjutors
in it: physically, because, men in general,
deterred by the apprehension of such punishment,
would not be his co-adjutors to such
a purpose.

It happens not unluckily that this maxim has
fallen to our lot for an example: as it is a
maxim that serves to whereby we announce two rules of fundamental cardinal
importance, which by their conjunction
form one of the great masterpieces of our Constitution:
and is, on this account, better calculated
than most others to pay us for our trouble.

These are the two useful senses of the maxim:⊞ ⊞ useful in taken conjunctly:
mischievous one of them serving as a balance to the other, mischievous, either of them taken separately.
there is another which is an a merely abusive one, much cherished
once, but now long since exploded. This is that

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