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CERTAINTY Form of Comm. Law.

The Author of the Commentaries, is pleased to
tell the ardent+Comm. 71, like as others probably doubtless have
done before him, "that the decisions of courts
of Justice are evidence of what is Common
Law" He puts the established custom of the Realm or as
synonymous to Common Law in p.70 If they are not as far as they
extend, the Common itself, but only evidence
of a somewhat elses what is so that is so, it would have been instructive
to have told us what is that somewhat else:
What for instance it was that the late decision
of the King's Bench in they Negro carry, or
that concerning copy-right was evidence
of, or any other decision which any one
shall choose.

This verbal artifice contrivance was apparently an expedient to
give some color footing to the hollow distribution
between in the preceding page between
"Bad Law", an appellation which a Judge is not
to give to the decision of a predecessor whom
he does not like, but and that of No Law

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And 'tis on this
happy distinction
as he assures us
that the old Lawyers
are justified
in the inconvenience
which they bestow
so copiously on
the Laws as being
the perfection of
reason, & as
-standing always,
to conform thereto;
(i.e. to that
of which it is
the perfection
already) & that
whatever is not
one is not

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which he may. The plain truth would have
been worth all this ingenuity: but thismight<add>would
have led men to reason better than above
It might have led them to detect perceive that
foundation of every King that is called Comm
Law, which crumbles as [you][try][to] lay
it open — It might have led them to perceive
that the Common Law any more than the
Aleora is not a wonderful correcting
-ting from the beginning of time, as the <add> I do
of the one & of the other would have thought it
but a set like the other string of disjointed.....
at successive times as there arose was occasion

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	050	Main Headings	procedure code
Folio number	060	Info in main headings field	certainty form of comm. law
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