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Brouillon Order of
its content Marginal
§§ 1. Generation p.1.
I 1
§§. 2.1 Words indeterminate —
Sources 3. p.1
to §§. 9 th
I 2
§§.3.2. Import uncertain
p.2
I 3
§§.4.3. Probative force
uncertain. p.3
to existence
Dumont reports
§§5 p.4
I 4
§§.5. 4 Existence )
uncertain. Dumont ) p.4
Reports)
III 2
§§.6. Star Decisions
convenient to
Lawyers p.4
II S 6 7 5
§§.7.5. Oppressiveness
or post facto
(state none than
(uncertainty p.5.
II 6 5
§§*7.6 Defectiveness in
substance (No
law all offence
committed.) p 5.
II
§§.8.7 Pretended comprehensiveness) p.5
I 7
§§.9.8. Voluminousness — p.5
III 1
§§.9*. Sources p.5
To §§.2.
II 7
§§.10.9. Improvidence
essential to it p.6
II
§§.11.10 Source non-prospector
— Requisites
wanting to the Pseudo-Legislators.
1. Will
() 2. Power p.6
<p> 3. Knowledge viz:
of modern enquirers
to the old pseudo-legislators.
II
§§.12.4 Incorrigibility
Liberalists & thegasists —
Mischief of attempt
at correction. p.7.
§§ 13. artifices for
palliating its defects
1 — Pretence of pre-decision
in new cases
2. Bond law called Not-Law
3. Extravagant
commendation.
4. Pretended populargencity p 9.10
Ordo Novus 5 May
1805
I. Formal View on
form. This under
Extras. Civils
II. Vecas in substaneo
the necessary result of the bad
form
III. Lawyers artifices
for concealing its defaults
and representing
them as excellencies.
This under Procedure
Technical.
IV. the Sources and
Mode of Formation
( This or Expository)
V. Presumption against
its goodness in point
of matter. Formed
1. In mode ages ignorant
of the habits
and exigencies of the
present times
2. In rude ages whose
comparatively dislike of experience
and intelligence
3. Without the opportunities
of information
in regard to facts,
was possessed by legislators.
4. Without any more
than one individual
case before their eyes.
5. Without the power
of listening to the
apparent dictates of
particular: utility in preferences
to prior decisions
Engl. Law
67. By the removeable
servants of the Crown
without any participation
on the part of the
people.
7 6. By persons having
an interest opposite to
that of the people in the
character of suitors those
wanting 1 Will
2. Power
3. Knowledge. p.6.
III
5. Depretiation of Statutory
Law
6. Hanbury to Statutory
law the mischiefs produced by
Jurisprundential. p.9
7.Deterring injure
by punishment p.9.
VI. Supposed Popularity
attachment
to it on the part of
the people.
1. As far as real
and natural, accountible
for by its
comparative grandness
in comparison of
Human and Canon
Law
2. If in contradistinction
to made
Statutory, neither
natural nor real
3. As far as real
and not natural,
refer caused by the
interested of
lawyers — the only class
of humans who can be
supposed to be acquainted
with it.
Separate from its
essential and universal
characters, those
which are local &
accidental.
Accidental ex. gr.
English Common Law
the narrowing rules in
regard to theft &c
the profusion of absurdities
seem peculiar to
English Lawyers.
In others the imperfections
term to have referable to
wind of thought: in
the English, to superabundance
of thought,
summary in wrong channels.
III
§§.15. Original necessity
of Jurispr. law p.9
§§16 Pretended popularigencity p.10
§§.17. Unlikely how
by it. p.10
Genealogy of
the
§§18. Course p.9
If non-homologation
is good for laws
(archigruones) give the
benefit of it to contrast
demogeneres laws)
Even above as to
those points as to which
the disprootion of the law
is fixed, jurisprudential (as must
happen with regard
to multitudes that
are continually
called upon) the fixative
is such only for the
benefit of the opinionist
lawyer, not of the
He can not
trust to any thing that
he sees in a book of
Common Law, as he
might in a Statute-book.
Among the unmemorable
and
defences of Jurisprudentive
law under the
name of Common Law
none ever will depend
than imply determination
To such prejudice in
favour of Jurisprudential
law among foreign
nations. Homologation
is then wished
for the general wish.
None Promulgation
Voluminousness
Roman Lawyers, to
keep the rule of nature
secret were forced to
keep it locked up.
English one not reduced
to so that barefaced in my opinion are expedient. They need but
to keep it in the form
of jurisprudential law:
the rule of action is
then kept for ever in
the dark dungeon, buried
under a load of rubbish.
Jurisprudential is the
Statutory law as the
scaffolding is to the building —
Absurd to suffer
the scaffolding to stand
either with the building
or instead of the building.
Disadvantages attending
1. Old cases (and new)
2. New cases only.
A great deal of the
older law is set aside
by fresher law.
of a given decision
By what master shall
it be known whether
it be or be not now
in force.
In Statute law this
mark is never wanting.
Ordo 1 Antimists) its form
2. Fiction? ) homologation
viz to introduce the
observation that no legislator
would be have been foolish
enough to employ fiction
at least. Quere
and as to Auto-murists
the French Lawyers-legislators.
Ordo 29 June 1809
§§.1.
§§.2. Sources
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