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Certainty. Stare Decisis

There are two 2 reasons for the utility of this maxim
The one is 1st the check to the Judges
The check to Judges by this means would be still more striking visible & uniform, as no weakness or partiality would flatter itself with this hope it be hazarded under the cover obscurity cover of obscurity The other 2nd that men are subject may have a certain
to guide them & know what they have to expect
For to the first that together with the independency
of the Judges that we owe that purity in the Administration
of Justice carried to that degree of perfection in which we see it of which, this Country perhaps affords an
instance entirely singular in the world.

The latter is very much weakened from the that unaccountable
neglect in which the decisions are suffered to
remain as soon as pronounced perhaps equalled by nothing but to [the care &]
anxious cautious integrity with which they are formed

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once in a Century when
too voluminous every thing
that was general might
be extracted & enacted
into Laws every the
rest prohibited to be
or taken any notice of
In process of Time this
at a time which end
must be very distant from
the present every thing
that was general might
be exhausted & the Code
of Laws become compleat
no matter how voluminous
that work should be seen
it would be the only work
of the perplexity of follow grasping particular
cases would be at an end - were it ever
to amount to 100 well fitted folios
and unhappily the number

Identifier: | JB/050/124/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 50.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	050	Main Headings	procedure code
Folio number	124	Info in main headings field	certainty stare decisis
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	jw
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	16115
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