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NOTORIETY - New Year-Books.5

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After that Plan had been so far presented as to extend into those years in which there are
Reports in Print, it might be a favour might be given to any person of the first or two first ranks
to send in as many cases names of cases as he should think fit, of which one other Report should
be published all along, with the as yet unpublished reports from the general contribution.

19.

If the small degree of invidia respecting such publishers of reports as are now living,
should be thought a circumstance worth attending to, then which number of persons of the either of the
first only or the first and second orders respective orders might assemble and on separate slips of paper+ + that one may not be discerned to have put in more than another & to have contributed to the undervaluement of that slight degree of expectation cast upon the cases already published than another— each part the names of the cases which as many cases as he would
have reported anew unto a Ballot-Box, for the publication second reporting <add>supplementary</add> of which requisition might
consequently be made in the name of the whole Body.++++The invidia being thus shared among so many, would to no one in particular.

20.

At the same time might be done accomplished <add>gained</add> a 2 works of great utility, tho of considerable difficulty 1st the decrying <add>reprobation</add> of
however short <add>the few decisions</add> occuring in each period which have been holden not to be Law (as the phrase is)
2dly the Reprobating of the various reports of other decisions themselves unimpeached. — Works Tasks both of them of some
difficulty, inasmuch as they would require the concurrence of the whole body of Judges to for the sake of due solemnity of authority
perform accomplish; but especially the latter, which would naturally give occasion to variety of opinions:
the former would be more easily disputated, as there it would not necessarily consist of any
thing more than confirming the opinion judgment already passed enter on the reprobated decisions by
posterior ones. — Thus then, at the end of every years publication there would be
two Indixes Expurgative — one autumn Decisions: the other; Relatorium of Reports. The one of bad decisions
- the other, of bad accounts of good ones.

21.

The enterprise, however Task however long &amp, laborious it may seem on a and important, when examined with a little attention, will
appear in no danger of being infinite. — Large Periods Many & considerable tho' interrupted periods
within from the assigned to the present time, have been filled up by the labours of
different Authors, Reporters many of whom have given general satisfaction & left little
during those periods over which they entered to amend or to supply, either in the number of cases, or the quantity of best part the argument
in each. [one separably] — A Period of upwards of 40 years in the History of
the transactions of the King's Bench is either executed, or undertaken for, by a Writer,
destined to carry this branch of Litterature to the it's highest state measure of perfection [of
which it is susceptible] — I know not that there has yet been found, nor do I think
there easily will be found that man, who will think himself able to point out
any improvement that could be made in any part article of that part of a work already
become voluminous ample with which we have yet seen As to all this prodigious period nothing is left by the Public to be done
but to wish pray that for the purpose of its completion Providence may yet spare for it's consummation a life already


PROMULG. N.Y.Books. Plan for. BK 5


Identifier: | JB/070/132/001
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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

18-20

Box

070

Main Headings

of laws in general

Folio number

132

Info in main headings field

promulg. n. y. books. plan for.

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c5

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::j honig & zoonen [lion with vryheyt motif]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

cc1

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23247

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