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MAXIMS. pueriliter eulogistica.
"The Law is the perfection of Reason" -
"Reason is the life of the Law"
From these two sage Aphorisms when coupled together as they frequently are, we learn that, —
the Law is [a sort of thing which is] the perfection of it's own life.
Another [is] conundrum with which Lawyers take a particular pleasure in insulting the understanding of their readers with peculiar compl
Such is the perfection of the Law, that it in no instance gives a right without a remedy
The solution of this is, that if there is no remedy, it is not a right: so that this
stupendous perfection belongs equally to the Law of the Hottentots Tierra del Fuego or New Zealand if they have any —
Salmon's Geographical Paradoxes
"Whatever is not reason is not Law" the way this is made you are [to make this good is, Whenever you
say of a thing point that it is not Law you are to say too <add>also</add> that it is not Reason.
Another conceit is, to say that we are not to say of an Authority which is meant to reprobate, that
that it is not bad Law, but no Law — The English of both of either of these phrases is, that the spe
if a Judge, will not be governed by it; if a private person, that he thinks, that any
Judge before whom it should come, ought not to or would not be so.
With these puerilities crudities does the Author of the Commentaries find his Pupils: crudities; which in this sense are adapted to the condition of Infants in the study, that [such are best fitted for their reception] they are most of their reception from such & [that they are] calculated to keep them so:
If the meaning of the first any more than of the second is, that what is in question
was not as good Law as to all it's effects as any other till it was contradicted it is not true. To that
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which is bad, while it stands unprepared as to that which is good, men stand in the same necessity of conforming:
if a Law was to be void whenever it would might have been better if it had been otherwise
How much is there of it all of which which in it's Utility the validity would stand secure?
I know not what facetious Geographer compiler first hit upon the thought which has been since pursued in most of the Books that have been published under the title name of Geographical Grammars of that Science of inserting along with Geogr under the Title <add>name Geographical</add> Paradoxes along with others a set of Aphorisms <add>Propositions</add> to which it which belong to it with propriety a set of very harmless and perfectly incontestible propositions which 2} are vamped up to look like the semblance 3} & scarce credible discoveries 1} by a trick play on words in the wording of the Sentence.
In the like manner in the works of most institutional writers on this Science, and particularly in that particularly <add>in particular which is the best of later</add> there are to be met of the <add>with</add>
handed down from one to another with much religion, [interspersed here & there in the [bodies of them] context
a like set of ingenious Conundrums, which like in the manner <add>imitation of</add> the others would might make a better no mean figure
at the head of them under the Title of "Legal Paradoxes."
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