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CERTAINTY. Form of Com. Law, Inconven:
The Law in this respect may be resembled
to that army, in whichfor the confounding of the adversary besides the generals have
reign of Commanderwho commanded there were upper to go forth a
whole band of counterfeit alike accounted then the
garb of Royalty. The whole Tribe of obsolete
& reprobated decisions judgments & opinions
are to many
counterfeit Sovereigns all speaking in the same
stile of imperation, in the name of whose countenancetaking them separately
of whichis there any ?whisky they may with
any certainty tobedistinguished them? from that
which on very topic would upon the trial be found actually to give the Lawactually gives the Lawis regnant.
The Abridger may be admitted in some degree
to remedy this confusion; but besides that
by ranging them in the order of their inaugurationhe can never give sufficient assurance of
his having absolutely omitted none of those that have been proclaimed
he is himself like those who consult him and
the case of being ignorant of those of ?whose operation
date, which was always onthose whose authority
is least contestible.
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