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Certainty - Form of C:Law. Stat. defined
by Bl Comm
The Statute Law is by the Author

The Commentaries
1st In the Introduction p.10 + + Observe there importance & so many delays in the Common Law which it is necessary should be regularly taken away by Statutes, for them to have any efficacy

2dly In B. 1. p365
Testing The Poor Laws are another subject from
whence the A. of the Comm's takes occasion to statute
by Statutes, for there that how it is "the tale of most of our Statutes Laws them to
hav imperfect and inadequate to the purpose
they are designed for where they have not
Foundation of the Common Law to build on.
All that has been done therefore for these Laws
three Centuries for toward the purposes in question,
bungling full of "miserable shifts & lazie expedients."
If we would read a model of perfect absolute
we must resort to the times of Alfred, whose
Science of Legislation was so well understood
that if the Sovereign had not taken the point
to turn Schoolmaster to a few of his Bishops,
there would not have been a Soul in the Kingdom
who could write or read. In proof of this proposition
the Author has had certain Intelligence, that
virtue consequence of the "admirable order in which think



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050

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063

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certainty form of cn law stat. depreciated by bl. comment<…>

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001

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1

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recto

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Penner

jeremy bentham

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caroline vernon

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16054

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