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NOTORIETY. New Year-Books. 6
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prolonged beyond the ordinary career course prescribed to human nature, and to wish, that the best
use may be made of it, while spared, to 1 so 4 meritorious 5 a 2 purpose 3. The To that
performance it is presumed, those whom it may concern would not hesitate to affix the Seal of Authentication [would not be refused]
without looking for either a concurrent competitor or a coadjutor.
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It is They are the Transactions of the Courts of Equity that will find the Revisers most employment. for the Many great Chasms
are there to be filled up, & which will fill up but slowly, in comparison by reason of the great
Sum of business which necessarily devolves upon those Courts. From the year 1755
to the present day, is all a void.
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Provision being thus made for remedying the negligence past negligent neglect of our Ancestors [& our own]
it remains to an establishment which shall supersede future, and by collecting and notifying the transactions as they arise If this busine enterprise of retrospective collection behoves to find many persons adverse to it, it is not so by any with one the subject of which should commence in should take present & future transactions for it's subject.
And this is being a work which tho' but a sequel to the other in design may be independent
of it in it's execution: & carried on by different persons.
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Sworn Judges will Neither the Author of the Commentaries to say nothing of Mr Barrington or many other writers [of inferior note] have dissembled their wishes to see such an one under establishment revived. And if that respectable writer particularly has omitted been silent as to the retrospective past, he who reads the passage in his work will impute that silence attribute it to the nature of his plan rather than to any cause which admitted not of any other than a short and transient reflection upon an subject in anecdote which the thread of his disquisitions led him to relate.
These persons to whom it might be committed might be, In the Courts of Common Law in Westminster
Hall (including the Exchequer) and assemblies of the Judges and House of Lords the Junior Judge, with an adequate encrease of Salary || || The Junior Judge, because as the matter is usually exhausted before it comes to him his time to give his opinion, he will be the least subject to have his attention diverted from the recorder what others say, to the considering of what he should say himself. with an Officer appointed for the purpose
for an assistant: in the Courts of Chancery Equity before the Chancellor and the Master of Rolls
either an Officer appointed for the purpose with his Deputy or the within Master in
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Chancery who sits for the day with an assistant <add> like assistance.</add>: an idle ceremony, which by this means would be turned into
an useful occupation — a Judge for the sake of the authority, and because the task
in that will consist in little more than the giving of a form to that operation in which he is course already
engaged by the duties of his Office: with an assistant to supply the Chasms which must
unavoidably occurr in a single man's attention, so occupied as well as to take upon charge of the mechanical
business of publication
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Twice in the year, viz. in the long Vacation, and in that between Hilary & Easter the Transactions brought down to the last
Juridical day [of sitting] might be printed in that degree of fullness which shall be thought expedient
in the mean time brief notices containing the short state of the case with the scolution
should be hung up of the Court according to it's inspection Order Sentence or by what other denominata soever the resolutions of the Court may respectively be known in writing in a Room allotted for that purpose, with the proper
apparatus of Indexes to facilitate reference. direct the Search.
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The Assistants might be Short-hand writers, that so they might be ready to determine any
contest that might arise concerning upon various occasions the very words employ'd — by this means the
public might be gratified by the publication of any remarkable speech upon an
interesting subject. But these not to be published without the consent of either the
speaker, or else all the Judges of that Court.
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If there were could be any room for hopes that mere merit alone would ever be suffer'd to decide the choice of Candidates
for this any offices nothing would be easier than to ascertain it. let anyone speak before
them speech unpublished that should then be able succeed, in copying it with the greatest fidelity should
might be pronounced most competent without danger of mistake. bear the Palm.
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