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In this view, the only account I know how to give of it
is, that it is a collection of such discourses as have
been written in the view of ascertaining the treatment
that in point of fact has been bestowed by Judges
on the certain modes of conduct regarded by it; and or from
thence of conjecturing what treatment would probably be bestowed
on other similar modes in future. And this seems
the sense in which it is commonly understood. In this view at the same time it is plain, that nothing
can be more heterogeneous more unfathomable,
more indefinite than it's contents: nothing more
brown dark, more impure than many of the sources of it. These
contents have been long ago immense; & are and
will be still encreasing, & that indefinitely till
some order shall be taken to the contrary.⊞ ⊞ Consider it at any given period: the present, for example: at the present period what does it consist of? At
present It consists of all the Reports⊞ ⊞ all the memorials of Judicial transactions, that happen
to have been already published: at the also of th all the
abridgments, extracts, digests that have been made
of the reports, also of all the observations that up
to the present time have been made concerning
the conclusions of to be made drawn from the reports.
In short of whatever good or bad has been written on the subject
of the Law. The Author's That work on which I am
commenting has long ago been become a part of the Common Law. This will as soon as it issues from
the press will be another. If anyone thinks a heap

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	028	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	144	Info in main headings field	common law
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	3
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] [britannia emblem]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	9409
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