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Appeal III. Remedia
and improved all concurr in manifesting the
importance of uniformity.
Note addition
The consideration of uniformity of decision, though naturally
connected with that of rectitude of decision
is perfectly distinct from it. Conceive
it a matter of indifference whether a rule of law
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Note
Appeal III. Remedia.
the remedy they would propose.
English practice Reports of decisions in Statute
In England no sooner does a clause in a
Statute become the subject of decision, than the public science
is <add>is loaded gratified</add> are cursed science is loaded with a history of the arguments at
large in ten or twenty or thirty folio pages which are either
useless or of which the alteration of a single word in
the Statute would have superseded the use. And thus
the Statute — law instead of staying, serves only to
its encrease, the plague of Common Law. Yet even
this plague is a blessing in comparison of a set of unpublished decisions convertible into at the pleasure of any bookseller or of any note-holder ex-post-facto laws.
at the pleasure of any note-taker who happens finds motives to produce
them out of his
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Private interests would likewise interfere with the decision
on in the business with the decision, and shake the probity, or what would
be as bad the reputation for probity of those who were to
give it
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