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Common Law. Particular Customs. Rules.
NOTE continued
worthy than the female. Now what is very probable supposable is
that the Lawyer who had the drawing of the plea in the
case in question had the drawing of the plea, happening
to have the notion come across him current in his head, gave this description
of his Client Client's title to the estate in contradistinction to that of his competetrix:
thinking it enough to intimate that it could
not belong to her, on account of her being a because she as a woman, not considering
that in order to share out make out his title
fully, it was necessary for him to show that it belonged
to him in exclusion of all other men. But as his
title as against other men was founded upon the
common and known rules of descent, the necessity
of stating this part of it particularly (might have crossed
him. How Of this mistake then the natural consequence of this mistake
was not that he should lose his cause, but
that he would be obliged to amend his plea. After all it would
be well for the Law, if no descriptions passed for good
in it that were less precise than this. Next friend,
for next relation, 12 men, or 12 honest and discreet
men, for a Jury, and many other examples too arduous
to mention, will readily occurr to anyone who
is conversant in the science. To strain at a gnat,
and swallow a camel, is a faculty character not peculiar to
the Jewish Lawyers.
General propositions, deduced that is propositision concerning sorts of matter deduced
from the observance of what is has been done concerned of in the way of punishment by Judges on the
occasion of individual actions, that it is apprehended conceived are
of those sorts
General propositions commanding concerning sorts of actions, marked declared
sorts which not that this or that individual action merely, but
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