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1828 Nov 20
Law and Blackstone

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Beginning
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Gods, , Rules,
Principles

☞ Before this explain the analogy between
corporal and mortal pathology

Astrea. Now then Felicia, let us have those
same pathological excuses of yours.

☞ After these have been exhibited go on and say
Astrea. What say you to all this Gubernia?
Gubernia. What say you Dr Blackstone?

Blackstone. Madam we have a Latin maxim which
meets it all. It is a very convenient one. De minimis
non curat lex. The law of England can not little
objects: minimis includes not only little things but little
persons Little persons and little things go together. This
little word minimis includes the
☞ This being exposed of in a

Equals is a likewise kind of law is law in perfection
Equals gives one remedy for wrong to a loss when £10
Equals declares to vouchsafe a remedy.
☞ Shew the later for the , by code at commencement
Lower Orders

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By English law these
matters considered as
trifles & beneath its
notice.

Blackstone. Madam, (speaking with respect) all these are trifling
things. We have a Latin maxim that provides for them in five
words. In English, The Law wastes not its case upon trifles. In
Latin. De minimis non curat lex. This word minimis
is the more significant and convenient, convenient as it includes
persons as well as things. Equity is law in its mode perfect
state. By Equity practice an interpretation construction has been put upon
and application made of this same word minimis. Penall
the case of a Court of Equity has been declared to be
every sum under £10. To be sure, millions there are of his
Majesty's subjects in whose instance income and expenditure
do not rise so high as to this amount: and when in a Court
of the superior sort a proceeding is instituted than this
amount must be advanced before any answer can be so made
or called for: and as all sums below £10 declaredly no better than
than trifling sums — not having
no claim to attention on
the point of the law, nor
accordingly receiving any
so neither are the trifling sort of
persons to and from whom
such trifling sums are
due: for in short they are
no better than the lower orders.

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Date_1	1828-11-20	Marginal Summary Numbering	8
Box	030	Main Headings
Folio number	156	Info in main headings field	law and blackstone
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / d4 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	9663
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