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1828 July 23.

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Blackstone fainthearted Intro.
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As to Blackstone's work, notwithstanding all that has
been done to render the subject intelligible to non-lawyers,
it still in the with reference had to all but lawyers it remains in
but a very imperfect degree intelligible. But if after in that original four
more than ordinary large volumes it still remains in so imperfect a so far from being in a perfect degree
intelligible, the consequence is — that in an abridgment of those same volumes — and
that abridgment compressed within the compass of three of those
small numbers, it could not but upon any ordinary plan,
remain to a prodigious degree much further from being perfectly intelligible

On these considerations has been grounded the present plan of
taking at once for the standard of reference and medium of explanation
such notices as could be conveyed in so short a compass
of law in the state of which in which it is all along supposed,
it might be. In this way and in the above same
conception, it is hoped, will be given of law as it is taken
in large masses: in large masses of that matter of which
Blackstone's work consists is composed: this done in each mass, reference
will then be made in the usual way, to those portions
of that matter, in which the particulars of those several masses
are to be found.

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If, in any degree, the statements that will be found
belonging to to come under the head of Law as it ought to be, should be found
to be not only new but true and useful, the novelty of them
will not it is hoped, be found in such a degree distasteful, as to
cause this first of the three Nos to be cast off at first entrance
and a demand stated as still existing for an
a skeleton of Blackstone's Commentaries under the notice assurance
of finding within that skeleton an adequate portrait description of the law.

Identifier: | JB/031/076/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 31.
Date_1	1828-07-23	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	031	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	076	Info in main headings field	blackstone familiarized
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / e2 / f2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1827
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1827
Notes public		ID Number	9762
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