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Judge.

Thus much further we may also understand that
Law whether un-authoritative which at t its first
appearance was unauthoritative may by adoption
be rendered authoritative: i:e: with respect to the
person potentate who adopts it: in this case I would call say
it it was Law adoptive. In this case we see the
words whether purporting to be the contain an expression of the
Will of the potentate in question of some other potentate,
make their appearance first: it is not
till afterwards that that the potentate in question declares them
himself to contain an expression of his will; which
if he may do either by acts or by express words. If a
Legislator, by acts words: if a Judge, by acts.
For a portion of Jurisprudence then that contain consisting of words that are the expression
of the Will of a Potentate but of who has not declared
them to [be such] contain the expression of
his will till some time after their first appearance
[having been first utter'd] we have this name adoptive.
For a portion of Jurisprudence consisting
of words that are the expression of a Potentate
who declared them to gave them for delivered them as the expression
of his will at the very time of their first appearance
we must find some other name: let this name
be autographic.[a] In autographic Jurisprudence
the will came before the words. In adoptive
Jurisprudence, the words came before the will.
[An assemblage of words] A portion of Jurisprudence adopted by a Potentate,

NOTE
[a] From ευτόs. Self, and γράφω, to write. I would not
introduce hard words without necessity but self-au in English
self-written Jurisprudence would seem to intimate Jurisprudence not

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