JB/031/154/001

Click Here To Edit

3 Septm 1828Blackstone

Ch.I. Titles

Universal jurisprudence.
Law as it ought to be, Do
as it is & Do as it pretends
to be, num intro these
pages, together.

Universal jurisprudence
what — its subject, the
discourse of persons of
all ages.

Use of this sort of discourse
here, to render
intelligible things not
familiar.

When by jurisprudence
we shall see what law
ought to be, the law a
standard to try law as
it is.

As it is pretends to be, mind
nearer than as it is — as
per Blackstone to whom
we shake often for details.

Blackstone most familiar
of writers on this subject
— only one who attempted
to delineate it or justify
its arrangements, to dispose
persons to be satisfied
with law's burthens by
contemplating its benefits.

---page break---

Difference between what
he pretends it to be, &
what it is, will be
those who trust him liable
to suffer from deception.
Warning from its traces.

§.2 Jurisprudence, from two
Latin words.

Universals speaks for itself.
In law what is common to
all nations, its enactments?
many without any, as if it
depended on lawyers, all
would be so. Of those who
have enactments, scarcely
one of them common to all.

Of the matter of law
the ideas are common, not
their signs. These ideas expressed
by different nations
by words, in some cases cases similar,
a portion of the language
of jurisprudence may
be said to be universal.

Not an inconsiderable portion
of this same language
common to all families.

First word to be considered
is Command, it
designates, the radical idea
of jurisprudence.

---page break---

What child unacquainted
with its (command) import?
— or with Commandments
whether few or Christian.

More familiar than to
order is to bid. Command
& order from Latin, bid
from Saxon - a bidding
gives an idea of do at an
auction.

Commands and orders
not universally agreeable
— only to those who deliver
them.

Next obligation — still
less agreeable — real signification
difficult to know.
An 8th vol. written on it.

Identifier: | JB/031/154/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 31.
Date_1	1828-09-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	031	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	154	Info in main headings field	blackstone
Image	001	Titles	ch. i titles
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	9840
Box Contents