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If it is to be heard, the language [+] [+] or (I will use a word less liable to ambiguity) the tongue must be understood:
if it is to be heard and read, the language
and the characters must be understood. Neither
language nor characters should be understood
with the good-will of the Professors.+ + Lawyers
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Any thing will serve a lawyer for an argument
when pleading for the abuses of his profession.
Translating Law proceedings from Latin into
English did mischief. Why? because more
words go to the same number of ideas in
English than in Latin [more therefore is paid
to the tax for words] therefore the Stamp- Duties
upon those proceedings have been encreased by it.
Either it is good fit that those Stamp-duties should be have been
thus encreased, or it is not: if good, there is nothing
in the argument: if not, there is a plain way to remedy
it: it is to make them lower. If the Legislature
think fit to make them lower, they know how
to do it I wish they did. would. I am satisfied that a Tax
upon Judicial proceedings (especially in its
present form) is [of all others] the very worst
way [that is] in use of raising money upon the
subject. for reasons that are not to the purpose here Such The Author of the Commentaries
approv thinks those Stamp-duties ought not to have been
encreased. Such is his opinion: such at least
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it is necessary for the present purpose should appear
to be his opinion. [Any man may
offer his opinion.] I think Mine is that they ought never
to have been laid on: I can easily could soon tell why it is my opinion but I would not have that
my opinion to should prevail against the opinion
of the Legislature.
It is remarkable The abuse of Voluminousness
One thing in all this is singular. The Author for once in his
life, (who would have thought it?) suspects, (or
it is necessary that he should have appear to have suspected
it,) that words in matters of Law may be
too many. Meantime The abuse of voluminousness must have stared him in the face a thousand and a thousand times: for no man can turn his eyes any where in the Law but it must stare him in the face: It is singular, that the only occasion purpose
on which this abuse is mentioned introduced marked as such with a
throughout his works note of disapprobation, is when [in order] to
make it furnish matter of apology for another.
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