JB/037/067/001

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1821. May 5. First Lines Divisions

Of the manner in which this wretched substitute
to real and genuine law is framed formed, take this description. In
the course of a suit in which application is made of the
rule of action thus composed, the judge, on each occasion,
pretends to find ready made, and by competent authority
endured with the force of law, and at the same time universally
known to be so in existence, and so in force, a
proposition of a general aspect adopted to the purpose of
affording sufficient authority and warrant for the particular
decision or order which, on that individual occasion, he
accordingly pronounces and delivers.

Partly from the consideration of the general
propositions so framed, as above, by this or that judge or set
of judges, partly from the confederation of the individual
instruments or documents expressive of such individual decision
or order as above, or framed in consequence of and
in alleged conformity thereto, partly from the consideration
of such arguments discourses as have been, or are supposed to have been,
uttered whether by the judge or by the advocates on one or both sides
on that same occasion, a setclass of men lawyers have, under the general
names of general treatises or reports of particular cases conceived
in the composition of an immense and continually
encreasing chaos — the whole of it written, and a vast portion
of it printed and published, constituting an ever encreasing
body of that which, having law for its subject, may, in so far
with propriety be termed being not only written but printed
be termed with propriety written though in actual usage it
forms a part or the whole of the matter which passes under
the denomination of unwritten law.

Identifier: | JB/037/067/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1821-05-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	067	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11282
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