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CERTAINTY

Disadvantages of the form of Common
Law

1.
1st The Axioms are all made ex post facto - after
the event which called for them to have been made
before

2.
2nd A great many decisions & a vast heap of Paper words
It is not the particular Axioms decisions wthemselves which can serve as guides to govern to man's conduct, but only the Axioms that can be formed out of them.
go to the making of a very small short Axiom.

3.
3rd Instead of being established as is pretended by the
consent of the nation at large they have no more
concern in their establishment commonly than the consent
of 4 men appointed by the Crown the number of Judges in the High Courts of
Common Law: very often of no more than one
whereas to those established by Statute there goes
The chicane of pretending & c
the consent of a majority of never fewer in than
some hundreds of whom the greater part are
chosen by the People.



Identifier: | JB/050/059/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 50.

Date_1

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Box

050

Main Headings

procedure code

Folio number

059

Info in main headings field

certainty

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[partial britannia with shield motif]]]

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

16050

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