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1826. Octr. 31.
Review of Humphreys

Ch. Agenda
(8 §§ Forms

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Example from Morng Chronl
Morng Chron. 1826 Oct. 31

Example Miscoll This would be preferred .... no administrators
of the law to be unpaid. Magistrate. Correction Corrected clause These
would, as administrators of the law, be preferred to the Unpaid
Magistrate.

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For avoidance of lengthiness
Rules

For avoidance of needless lengthiness of sentences, and thence obscurity by means of needlessly repeated particularization
or say lists of particulars and employ insert the list once
for all prefixing to it a generic appellative term [or descriptive
sentence] in which they are the import of all of them comprehended.
Thereafter substitute on each occasion that generic
term on each occasion to the list.

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2 Exclude exceptions from
principal article
general enactment which
commence with the words
Exceptions excepted

For avoidance of obscurity by means of involvedness and thence needless lengthiness of sentence by involvedness,
and thence of lengthiness and obscurity, put
off from the preceding article the of all exceptions from a general enactment out of
to another an Article: commencing the principal Article with
the words Exceptions excepted

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3 Look our for locutions
used in English law language exclusively —
mark them for
scrupulous avoidance of
using them.

Look out for as many particular all the several
features by which the face of in style of the English law style is distinguished in England
from that of the language in use among English lawyers
is distinguished from that of non-lawyers in England
and that of lawyers as well as non-lawyers in
all other nations: Mark it as effectually unfit
for use: and with scrupulous anxiety anxious care avoid thenceforward
the making any further use of it.

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Unlicensed thieves cant
has for its object pleasantry
or concealment of intended
depredation. Licensed thieves
cant depredation itself.

The unlicensed thieves' cant has for its object
partly pleasantry and good humour, partly the concealing
from the intended victim or from the vigilance of
scheme of past or future intended depredation. Thus
licensed and privileged thieves cant is itself an instrument
of depredation.

By Thieves can not make
r intended victims payment
cannot

Out of the pockets of intended
victims payment the peculiar
will be exacted by jargon of thieves can not
be employed in

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Date_1	1826-10-31	Marginal Summary Numbering	6-11
Box	078	Main Headings	Review of Humphreys
Folio number	139	Info in main headings field	Review of Humphreys
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	E8
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	George Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	25230
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