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11 April 1805
Evidence
On the subject of law, as on any other subject The possession of a book or of a part of a book is of little no
use to a man, any further than as occasion calls upon to consult
it, he is able to lay his hands on it. By putting
When the aggregate mass of the matter of law in such a state
has been searched to a certain bulk, in such case by putting it
or leaving it and or keeping it in such a state that no man
who has not been made a trade of the searchon a given occasion, can be sufficiently
assured of finding in it what he wants, things may
be so ordered that even were the tenor of the law when discovered been fixed and
clear the necessity of applying to a professed searcher for the
discovery of it, might still continue.
Fourth device of the technical system: – keeping the body
of the law in the highest state of disorder possible.
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