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remarkable in the colouring [he has given put upon them] They
are therefore not of a nature to require much
comment.
Two passages however it may not be amiss to take
notice; one on account of a judgment an observation it contains
of our author upon a matter of fact related
in it: the other on account of the matter of fact
itself.
⊞ ⊞ To p.5. proof that Common Law consists of all indiscriminately that has
ever been written that is no drawing better takes remains in that glorious uncertainty in which Lawyers
behold contemplate with so much tranquillity every object
around them plunged. When How it is that a book is
old enough, or when a wise enough – What that If canonization commences from the time those would could give testimony
of his practice in a more
The points other passage that seemed worth noticing is one of those few instances, so valuable
because they are so rare, whose the in which our
Author [has profound employed his critical powers to point
out the and not to gloss over its defects] in
speculating upon the state of our Jurisprudence,
has chosen to employ his critical powers rather
in pointing out than in glossing over it's defects.
"The reports" he tells us "were", during a certain period,
"taken by the prothonotaries, as chief scribes
"of the court, at the expence of the Crown, and
"published annually, whence they are known by the
"name of Year Books". "And it is much to be wished"
observes our Author continues he, "that his beneficial custom had
under proper regulations been continued to this day:
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