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There is a vote in the Journals of the H: of Commons Oct. 4th
18 Car: 2 "That a Committee be appointed to confer with such
"of the Lords the Judges & other Persons of the Long Robe,
"who have already taken pains & made progress in perusing
"of the Statute-Laws, & to consider of repealing such former
"Statute-Laws as they shall find necessary to be repealed,
"& of expedients of reducing all Statute Laws of one nature
"under such a Method and Head as may conduce to the
"more ready understanding & better execution of such Laws"
Published in 1763. Hawkins on the Highways 45.
If foreign evidence be required in support of a proposition thus
evident of itself, the reader may see the same thing asserted by
an eminent & active Magistrate, with that air of decision a peremptoriness
which hard learned experience had well intitled him to assume
the observation is here indeed applied more particularly to the
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Laws relative to the subject of the Highways, with respect
to which he had a few years afterwards the satisfaction to
see these his wishes gratified: but the reason of it is universal:
it may be seen farther in the same ingenious Tract
that the Author's complaints any more than the Justice of
them are not confined to this single subject+.
It is an assertion made with a confidence that Laws made hard learned
by a Gentleman experience had inspired who had greater occasion than perhaps any
other in the Kingdom to feel the Truth of it "that every attempt
to amend the Laws in quesion by additional or explanatory
Acts, will produce great confusion among those
whose Duty it is to execute them: & that nothing can remedy
the evils ....
CONTOS. Consolid. A Vote for - Advocatos for Hawkins.
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