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RS VOLUMINOUSNESS - STYLE. 7
thought in there taken to prevent. — Scarce a Statute but is loaded laden with one or more
instances of this sort
42. - v. 35. frequenting
[Not that [this violation of the Rules of Grammar] is in any case peculiar to this Statute,
for in a few printed compositions of the age, are grammatical trespasses more frequent
or more gross: not those not Orthography & Concord, I mean, which wound the a cultivated ear, but which affect those against Syntax & distinct <add>vitiate —</add> the meaning <add>meaning—</add>
43. BODY Natural or Politic?
A doubt arises (which by parenthesis took not it's but from would not have happened but for a redundancy) whether defr
a person under 2. Geo.2 c.25 was is defrauding a Corporation + + v Bamidgton - Appendix. — It is thought necessary to remove compose it by a legislative new legislative
provision interpretative for the purpose — Where does the reader suppose this provision interpretation is to be met with? At In the
78th of a string of long Sections in at the Tail of a Revenue Act.+ The words which render, or which at least were thought to render the amendment supplement necessary are or with intention to defraud any person whatsoever" [§1] Had it stopped at the word "defraud" the They would not have had would It could never have enter'd into any one's head to think them so had the passage stopped at the word "defraud". By 31. G.2. c.23 ss.78.
44. Fiat STATUTA SORTE DIGERANTUR;
If this proposal for a new arrangement should not be thought fit to be embraced, the next
would make would be to take to pieces the whole collection of Statutes and draw them by clauses
of a Lottery Wheel, [to give us] By this <add>In which means we should at least have</add> a that chance for seeing them in better order than they are
at present.
Categorical x Hypothetical 45. NUMBER. STATUENDI FORMULAE.
A noun in the singular number preceded by an article or pronoun indefinite is equipollent
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to the name noun repeated b in both numbers with connected by a conjunction disjunctive- —
Ex. if a person shall — if any person shall — a person who sh shall
any person who shall — person here is equivalent to {person or persons"}— taken steal
a Horse — take steal any Horse — Horse equipollent to {Horse or Horses}.
OOf the formularies of preception
a Precept is either positive
or negative — the positive retains
it's name: the negative is often stated
- prohibitive preceptive
Of the formularies of Legislation
The The form which in a strict Grammatical Sense
is called is called imperation, is not frequent scarcely to be met with in our
Laws especially of modern date, because that form
hastening to it's end, admitts not
commodiously of those modifications &
restrictions circumscription of the power of abuse which characterize our Legislature Laws
so much to it's advantage
45 STATUENDI FORMULAE
In like manner the Pronoun Substantive in respect to Human beings - demonstrative number singular is equipollent to followed by the
relative and a verb of the present tense Indicative or future is equipollent to person or
persons in the preceded by an adverb conditional & followed by a verb of the like sense in the future or present
subjunctive or Indicative — {He that steals} to "If any person or persons
shall steal. A Pronoun negative indicative of the the Agent agreeing with the verb denoting
the action prohibited as it's nominative case to 8.55
<p>The following Rules are
constructed for the purpose of
furnishing a solution in all
cases that shall occurr on the
subject of Legislation to the
following will propose to himself this standing Problem - VIZ:
A Set of Ideas being given,
to express them in the fewest
words possible. they will admit.
46. PERMISSIO.
He shall may his for [such an one] to do 01 may do. Car. 2. 25. ss88
47 REDUNDANCY
Epithets Attributives imparting Qualifications the expression of which is either 1 superfluous because not the Law
and common sense implies sufficient " 22 & 25. Car. 2. 25. 7. witness- + + v. P Carnden & P Mansfield's Arguments on a point of Evidence. 4 to.
or 2dly Nugatory
because their import is of the to constitute it's
existing <add>inherent</add>
as & discreet men
48 Male experimuntur per PERIPHRASIN quibus est Namen
The last example passage may likewise be reduced an example of a principle
introduced to express an those strands appropriate Form of
COMPOSITION. Statute singly qua Statute— Enacting Formulary. [L] (45, 46) Hodge-Lodge-ness Ex. of. 43.
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