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1828 Aug. 21
Blackstone

Preface
2 (2 §. Thus waits he open to
objections

Objections to Law as it is the master will not undertake to answer
may be Law as it ought to be

Thus numerous abundant then is are the doubts and objections and contradictions to which this little work
such as it is, will be can not but be expected to give rise.
True: but is there an objection to the composition and
publication of it? By means. Be they ever so numerous
is it in their power to will they have any such effect as
the casting either upon the design of this the work or upon
the execution of it any just well intended/well grounded reproach? By no means.
What When is the reproach that can justly fall upon a man for
not having on every occasion correctly represented that which of which
any correct representation or in the very notion of the thing impossible
is in its very essence absolutely incapable of being correctly represented.
all the high dignitaries of the law the three great
Equity Judges the 17 great Common Law Judges with the Attorney
General the Solicitor General, and the whole assemblage of Kings Counsel be best
assembled together, and for years together employed in nothing
else but the composition of a work having exactly the
same purpose on the present — the work supposing it
to appear — would it be unproductive of a nature
to stand clear of the like doubts, objections and contradictions?
Not it indeed: possibly not much more so
than the present.

Such is the state — the deplorable state of the case.
But the cause of its being so, what is it? One single question
will suffice to bring it to view. Of that which has no existence,
how can any is it possible any correct account,
any account capable of being relied on with safety should be given?

If taken as a whole the law had any existence
and were at the same not only what it ought to be but what moreover what it might be
neither this not any other account that could be given of
it would be a matter of necessity or even of any
comparatively speaking, of any use. A body of law
which is what it ought to be and might be, such a work
should it come into existence will give of itself and in snd by itself the only
good
good and trustworthy
account that can be
given of it.

Identifier: | JB/031/100/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 31.
Date_1	1828-08-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	031	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	100	Info in main headings field	blackstone
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	9786
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