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Very different in this respect from the Text, of the index to it
repetitions apart there cannot be too much. on the contrary the fuller
it is, the better is the Student eased — The more faces under
which an article is there presented; the more chance is there
for that being one of them under which it happens to present
itself to him: especially with regard to Students at their first
entrance into the Study, & persons not of the Profession (if
it is proposed they should have the means given them of knowing
any thing about the matter) who are often at a loss to
to know what other faces or relations it is susceptible of, besides
that particular one under which they chance at first to view it.
As the number with which he has at any time to do is always
the same, viz: one only: whether the others with which he has
nothing to do, be few or many makes no difference to him —
being led to it at once by the Alphabetical clue, without
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Relative therefore to each case, there ought to be inserted in the
Index — 1. st As many Titles [points] as can be picked out of it:
2.d their respective Synonymas, where there are any.
With respect to these last it is evident that it will not be necessary
under each to insert that part of the doctrine of the case which concerns it, but under
one only for each groupe so as the rest be amply furnished with
references to conduct the reader to that one.
Many Compilers have thought it sufficient if every Determination case
was placed under some one article of their own choosing:
while at the same time there might be twenty different accounts
upon which it might be material to a man to pursue that —
same Determination case; and consequently accordingly just so many chances
against his succeeding in pitching in the first instance (if ever
at all) upon that individual one [the consideration] of] which
happened to have governed the arrangement.
A single example will serve to shew the inconveniencies of too
concise an Index, in a work otherwise of acknowledged merit.
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PROMULG N. Year Books - Indexes. HBB 1
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A Person in London as occasion to make an addition to
his House: he happens to hear that there are Acts of Parliament
which lay him under certain restraints: [as with
respect to the Building of the Walls,] He is told of Cay's —
Abridgement: 'tis the most modern one: he turns to it.
Under what title may he think to find it — He turns to
the Index and for "Walls" not there — Party-Walls
if this word happens to have been mentioned — not there
"Houses" — not there "Buildings" not there —
It happens, that one design though not the only one of the
Statutes relative to that Subject, was the prevention of Fires
and upon this consideration they are classed under this Title.
Now if the person from whom he has his information by whom he is put upon his search happens
to be apprized of the reason, & happens to have communicated
it, there is some chance of his lighting upon what he searches
for at last, and at the last if at all it probably would be.
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But while the greatest part of the people nation remain are unapprized of
the very existence of 99 parts in a hundred of the Laws —
which governs them, it is rather too much to require that they
should have comprehended & retain the reason; & without
a man does this in the instance in question after reading this
Index from A to Z, he will be just as wise as he was before
And yet sure enough what he wants is there, if he knew but
how to find it.
Indexes there should be 1st. To the Persons. 2d to the Places
3d- to the points decided. Of Persons — these are either 1st Persons
concerned in the transaction — 2d in litis-contestation.
1st. Persons concerned in the transaction are either 1st. Parties
giving name to a cause — 2d — Parties not giving name to
a cause — or 3d 3rdPrivies —-- 4th Strangers Privies by which I understand all such in
in general as happen to have such a relations to the cause as
to be mentioned in it.
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