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Common Law. Reports and Treatises.

What is that locus? this our Author, with very
good reason has not taken upon him any otherwise than by approximation to determine
"One of the last" "whose treatises are authority is see Sir
"Edw. Coke". It is Coke's last treatise was written
in 1628. The very last? this he does not say.
Sr M. Hale died in 16... This in point of time
is o inconsiderable distance. Yet will would our Author
or undertake to say that Hale's while Coke's is perfect authority
and that is perfect, Hale's is none at all? I believe
hardly. I believe there is no one who would find it
an easy matter to determine with himself that the
authority of Hale, (I mean even in the particular sense
here given to the word authority by our author to the word of authorities,)
is at all inferior, much less to what degree it is
inferior, to that of Coke.

Allow The misfortune is, that allowing the line to be
drawn any where through an a certain point, we are not
much the wiser. Allowing⊞ ⊞ (to speak in metaphors and on this subject we can speak no otherwise than in metaphors) allowing, I say a certain number assemblage of
writers to be within it the line, we are still still are we almost as much
at a loss as ever. Determine Allowing the specific
gravity[a] [a] Note of those without it to be below a still
for that of those within it we are without a measure. Bare antiquity alone is not that measure.
Glanville is more ancient than Coke: yet we should were
no hardly allow the authority of Glanville Glanville
to be found to laid lay down one rule of Law, and
Coke an opposite one, we should hardly govern ourselves we acknowledge

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