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1828 July 25

For a long time, memory was almost the only repository
there employed. Witness the two sorts officers still existing
under the denomination of Remembrance: the Remembrancer
of the Court of Exchequer: and the Remembrancer of the City
of London. Of certain Of the nature proceedings of each case when the importance
of the case appeared to warrant it and suitors many were for the
wanting expence of it was forthcoming a minute called
was written in a roll of parliament which received thereuon
the denomination of a record. But the account thus
given of the case was always a very meagre one: and
from the individual proceedings no such general informers
were therein deduced or could suffice in any tolerable degree
suffice for mens guidance in future similar ones cases.

For a considerable number of years last past removal
accounts of this sort being not only being committed
to writing but regularly published under the name of Form
Reports" and for every one of the three four great Westminster
Hall Courts there is a series of those Reports. To no
one of those Reporters does any Judge give avowedly the sanction of his authority
but in all of those not only is a virtual honour habitually given, but occasionally
even assistance. In the interval between the
early part of the 16th century and the present time
formidable both to purse and patience is the number
of those books of Reports that have from time to time
been printed and published by sales: what additional
number may yet remain unpublished in private libraries
it is not possible to know. Not one such collection in of those treasures is there
there but a to which it may not at any time happen to
be brought to light. But in no instance should can any
such appearance be stated as probable as an object either
of hope or fear. The thing desirable is – that no such light no one of those
should hence forward come into existence: for instead of
contributing as to the settling of the state of the law desirable as that object, the tendency of
any such document would rather be to adverse than favourable to the accomplishment of it.

Identifier: | JB/030/062/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 30.
Date_1	1828-07-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	8-10
Box	030	Main Headings	pannomion
Folio number	062	Info in main headings field	jud.
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / d3 / e3 / e1***
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	9569
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