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CERTAINTY ADJECTIVES Summary
PROCEDURE

Gather up the fragments that nothing be lost.

A most useful enterprize task would be that of comparing
the several Statutes together which have
presented a summary method of Trial before
Justices, and forming a compleat & regular deduction
of the several steps directed or permitted
to b by any of them to be taken in the course
of the proceedings. Here then would be a rich
Magazine of expedients collected & [sorted ready
for use] placed at hand wh for any man the proposer of any Law to chose
without what is best adapted to his particular
purpose, without the drudgery of search, or
the labor of invention — In this Repertory, a
man would see the best of what has been executed provisions that had been
made for exigencies if he cares similar to his own and begin at once
upon the aggregate stock of consolidated experiences wisdom
instead of entering fresh & comparatively unprepared;
unprepared with any but such few scattered assistances

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as chance has presented to his view.

If the present sets of Adjectives provisions to of the
summary kind are all of them imperfect
(and imperfect I think it is possible they would
all be found) wanting of of many missed pieces
which however useful, if only useful to want they
must continue, or if necessary to put the machine in motion, be applied with
at a venture from the Judicial power, it is
only because no man is of himself wiser nor more
ingenious discerning than all that have gone before him
put together: all though wiser & more discerning
than all of them put together he might well
be, if the knowledge of them all with the means into power <add> put into his hands of making might ever
upon occasion be his knowledge: if instead of . .
..............
rating Bread: It gives a compulsive power of
Insulated bringing in unworthy witnesses: a provision which
if not # # as I see no reason
why it should not be in all is would be at least useful in a great number,
in some hundreds perhaps of other articles Statutes in which
some such is to be found. How happens it that
it is not to be found in them? from no other cause
than that it never occurred to the constructors. compilers
Now it would have occurred, if such a Repertory of which
it would have formed an Article been composed ready
for them to consult &
he would could mount at once upon their shoulders.

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If it would afford facility, no less would this plan it
secure give birth to uniformity and consistence. It whould stand
as a pattern of a compleat set of Adjective
provisions, in which a piece of a portion made after a fashion might
allways occupy any a certain places: all trivial & subjective
differences being removed in the several copies

Armstrong being attached effected, improvement
could be pursued with multiplied advantage.
To make it in one copy of a [certain] price would
now be to make it and all

'Tis for want of this; that so many useful pieces, which
would have given strength & efficacy solidity to hundreds of [Systems]
beside the individual one for which they were fashioned,
the productions of so many variators being buried.
they are]
in the unsorted chaos, here, in a manner furnished
with them.

To take the first instance that came to hand.
A Statute of the late King gives cognizance in a summary way to certain magistrates of the offence among other things of an adult.

31 G.2.c29
§§ 35
is 1st Burn
232 8vo 1766

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We are as yet in that respect like Artizans in
that rude & unsocial state of a manufactioner
when every one has his own Tools to make of
his own models to put together construct, without any other
assistance than a few scattered hints from some
next door neighbour.

Everyone in short who has a Law Statute of this kind to
make has a new language to learn, & without any no Dictionary
to assist him: Words they will possess, in proportion
to their industry & their memory some more or some fewer,
but like the literati in Chowan there is none that will [be] master [of] the
whole language.

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