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Common Law. Particular Laws

deemed annext to it by our native Jurisprudence. Unless
these limitations be understood to be included in the designation
of the part itself. Thus vague, thus deplorably
vague is the most precise description that can be
given of the branch of that great body which
is intended to serve us for a rule of action. We
are sent to haul for it through a labyrinth also body
as dark extensive and as dark than that into which
it is adopted. Judged by a standard the parts of
which are every where and no where, commanded to
Judged do they know not what, and punished they know not
why, [such s the state the Legislator of uncertainty and distraction
into which the neglected subjects are left plunged by the supineness
of shaping Legislators.] such, O Legislators is the state of
uncertainty and distraction in which the people lie abandoned,
while ye are sleeping![c]

NOTE [c]

What has been above applied to the Roman imperial Law
may be applied with little variation to the Roman Canon
Law. It will not be necessary again to enter into the details
of the application.

The paragraph however with which our Author concludes
the account of he gives us of the Canon Law ought not
to pass unnoticed. It contains concerns the Canons enacted
by Convocation in 1603, being in point of time the last remnant
we have of native autographic Law relating
to Ecclesiastical matters enacted by a purely Ecclesiastical
assembly of Legislature.

"As for the Canons enacted" says our Author by the

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