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1826. Decr. 7
Review of Humphreys

Ch. Agenda
(7 §.1. as to Matter

Definitions. say rather Expositions. Definition
What is commonly stated meant by Definition — definition
it differentiation
— not being applicable to a term which
has no superior guess: in which case is a large tribe. Of
the necessity need of an authoritative exposition, as an
operator without which no approach to certainty as in the nature
of the case attainable on Author seems to several
leading terms he has accordingly applied to it. [+] These are
Land
Settlement
Charge
Release
Conveyance
Assignment
Execution of a Deed
Trustee
I have looked over
his table in this view: and no fewer than 289 candidates for
so I have found. In compensation for the burthen comes herein
the consideration that among them in large proportion are those which
apply to every part of the field of law as well as to that which is
the subject matter of his present labours.

The words thus presenting a demand for elucidation may present
be themselves as divisible into classes

1. New terms devised of necessity for the use of the new arrangement
His Purpose of for exposition to readers of all sorts. Examples
3

2 Terms of universal jurisprudence: purpose of exposition,
giving clearness and fixation to the conception on the part of all
readers. Examples 1. Obligation. 2. Right. 3. Power. 4. Liability
5. Responsibility. 6. Possession

3. Terms of extension import, and necessarily frequent occurrence
in universal use. Purpose of exposition, fixation. Examples
1. Lands. 2. Works 3. Machinery 4 Timber 5 Farms 6 Dwelling House

4. Terms of which the among lawyers the import is different from
what it is among persons at large. These as being so many
sources of misconception and deception should be carefully excluded
out of the Code, and terms universally intelligible substituted.

Examples. Voluntary instead of gratuitous conveyance instead of to lay
voluntary has for its opposite involuntary, compulsory. 2. Real
property. In ordinary discourse it has for its opposite unreal —fictitious

IX. IV. Ambiguity. Cause of it first 1. mis 2.
mis mis — employment of ambiguous terms
and
phrases of this
mis
For this, this,
its various shapes I twice of appropriate readers
They will be at my learned




Identifier: | JB/078/160/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 78.

Date_1

1826-12-07

Marginal Summary Numbering

Not numbered

Box

078

Main Headings

Review of Humphreys

Folio number

160

Info in main headings field

Review of Humphreys

Image

001

Titles

Category

Text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

E7

Penner

Watermarks

J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1826

Marginals

George Bentham

Paper Producer

Jonathan Blenman

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1826

Notes public

ID Number

25251

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