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1826. Decr 4.
Review of Sugden
2.

This source of uncertainty, it is obvious, applies
not at all to living Judges; scarcely, to living Reporters;
but go back som 20 or 30 years, dead
Judges are seriously affected by it. While living,
Lord Mansfield was every thing: for some time
his decisions had several of them been overruled,
and upon the whole they are held comparatively
cheap. As for Reporters, Blackstone, when
he returned Reporter, disappointed in no small
degree, the expectations raised by his commentaries:
i.e. on the part of the public at large, say
for example Law Students and Attornies. For,
whatever took the pains to turn from its work to
the authorities found his authority very little to
be depended upon. One of the men, if not the man,
whose Report was regarded as among the most
trustworthy, if not the most trustworthy, at any
rate, before the fashion of regularly recurring
Term Reports became established, was Mr Douglas
afterwards ennobled by the title of Lord Glenbervey.
Of the merit of his Reports, no small part was ascribed to his
assiduous but unapparent collaborator, George
Wilson, who. when he quitted the Bar, was at the
head of the Norfolk Circuit, with a silk gown
upon his back. Wilson, a Scotchman, had upon his
first arrival in London, been introduced to Mr
Bentham, became an intimate of his, and in
consequence had the advantage of studying under
him

Identifier: | JB/078/199/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 78.
Date_1	1826-12-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	078	Main Headings	Review of Humphreys
Folio number	199	Info in main headings field	Review of Sugden
Image	001	Titles
Category	Copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C2
Penner		Watermarks	J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1826
Marginals		Paper Producer	Jonathan Blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1826
Notes public		ID Number	25290
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