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The great Act was probably the consequence of this Speech.
Among the many weaknesses & failings & frailties of that Prince
failings of which not he alone, but Age should answer with
him let this merit be numbered to his eternal honour.

There is the same reason for crying down obsoleted Decisions,
that there is for repealing as is now done every day, hominal homoionomi
Statutes: with this difference that the accounts of Decisions
being ten times more voluminous, create a tenfold
greater embarassment than the other.

Perhaps from Magna Charta down to Hen. 8th, perhaps even
to Eliz. perhaps even lower, there is not a single Act, which
would not admit of such obvious amendations as there is
no Lawyer living, who should first have concurred in the
general principle of the expediency of such a plan of reformation,
but would acknowledge to be advantageous.

... either the end was impolitic originally or is become so
now, or the means inadequate, often the very existence as a
Statute questionable. What doubts & difficulties involve
even this preliminary and fundamental question, in a great
number of instances may be seen in Ruffhead's Preface to
the Statute Book.

Judges want time, Advocates time as well as Interest, Legislators
who are neither one nor the other, knowledge Science. All men want
Zeal - of which The relative want must go on increasing
with the quantity of subjects which demand it.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	079	Main Headings
Folio number	058	Info in main headings field	composit.
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	25500
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