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1828 Aug. 28
Blackstone

8
§.2. Universal Jurisprudence
§ Rights in
Possession
to Blackstone

Private Way
B. III. Ch. 3 P. p. 5

Per Blackstone — I may
take my horse from a common
&c but must break open
a stable.

In the present case, for exemplification as above, the
thing placed brought upon the carpet is a coat: for a similar
purpose, the thing brought upon the carpet is a horse.
"If for instance" (says he) " my horse is taken away, and
"I find him on a common, a fair, or a public area
"I may hopefully seize him to my own use: but I
"cannot justify breaking open a private stable or entering
"on the grounds of a third, or taken home, unless to be
"feloniously stolen, but must have recourse to an action
"at law."

This to elucidate the position
that recaption must not take
place — to occasion strife or bodily
contention or endanger
peace of Society; if bodily
contention alone — it
more clear — as it is — clouded.

Thus i The position, for the elucidation of which this
employment is given by him to his horse is — "that the natural
"right of recaption shall never be exerted, where
such exertion must occasion strife and bodily contention
or endanger the peace of Society. that to his
If on this occasion the words "bodily contention" had been
all the words employed, his explanation would have been so
much the clearer: not but that in this case, some in a
in which this tayler were included, a demand would have place for further particulars as
would But by the strife which precedes these words, and
the peace of society which follows them, glitter is produced instead of clearness
and the whole is wrapt in clouds.

Here as every where doubt
may be raised — if he says these
are the words of Common Law
— his adversary says not true
but these are

As in other cases so in this, upon and every thing he says
doubts upon doubts, all of them well-grounded ones might be
raised: for whether by him by whomsoever delivered, whether by him, or by
any body else, it is a in propriety of whatever is said un
in the character under the name of Common Law to make us believe that we
know what in case of one doing so, would be done by to us or
by the Judge — which had while/should that same said knowledge is especially impossible:
for, take up any set of words, and say these are
the words of Common Law, — no will your adversary say, not
those but these are: and as no particular one individual set of words are
words
of common law, as well
:of these things which are
called law, it is only
the Statute law that has
any determinable words
belonging to, you and he
ar say better if you are the
wished it true, so long as your reason at assertion is in the negative, both of you, what is false whatever your assertion is of the positive sort.

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Date_1	1828-08-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	031	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	030	Info in main headings field	blackstone
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
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