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1828 Sept. 9
Blackstone

So much for the sort of functionary called a Judge. Now
for as to the sorts of functionaries, by Law as it ought to be, thus linked
together, and stiled Accersitors or say Higher-callers,
and Prehensors.

Accersitors is from the Latin accersive to call-hither.
Hither callers a word excluded is for the accommodation of such of our readers
to have preferred for to Latin something more useful for the subject
matter of their studies. New ideas must have new words
to express them by or remain uncommunicated, and thus, if there
be in so far as there is any use in them lest to use. Such
at least is to no small an extent, the case.

Prehensors, nearly if not altogether compleatly, speaks for itself.
We take In the same sense, Law as it is speaks of apprehending a man, and of his being apprehended,
but apprehended means not only laid hold of bodily, but
understood: and we have it has it knows of no such persons as apprehenders.
Functionaries these may Not however the less in existence
are functionaries thus occupied, is the need of speaking of
them. Dropping the useless syllable ap Law as it
ought to be, drives off the ambiguity, and enables itself to speak
of Prehensors as well as prehending the prehension: as well as of the Agents, as well
as of their the action in which they occupy themselves.

Removing out as here, the useless ap, the French, for to apprehend, say prendre from whence in word prixe a price.
The action being in all cases the same – the sort of effect
desired to be produced by it, one and the same, what need of or
what use in giving employing, in this instance any more this
use that of the Judge in the giving so many different expressions to it, in every one
of a multitude of cases. Of such altogether useless complication Bewildering mens minds is at any
rate the effect – bewildering them and blinding them and misleading them by pr causing
them to look upon the same things as different things is at any
rate the effect: and of every endeavour to prevent instructive
simplicity from being substituted to delusive complexity, such
will incontestably have been the object.

☞ This, here or elsewhere? Clouded with dust (alas how heavily!) throughout its whole
expanse is the field of legislation: enveloped in this blinding atmosphere
in some measure, it must be confessed by the severe hand of nature: it is true enveloped
but only in a comparative
slight degree: it is by the
sinister hand of man – of
man in authority, that by
for the greatest part of the dust
has been raised, and the hand which, by a little sprinkling of common sense could and would lay it, kept aloof as long and as far and as long as possible.

Identifier: | JB/031/185/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 31.
Date_1	1828-09-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	031	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	185	Info in main headings field	blackstone
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4 / c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	9871
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