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That a Law may do mischief tho' it be not known: that
it cannot do be of use good any farther than it is known:
that a great part of our Laws are not known: that they
cannot as things stand at present be known: & accordingly
it is not to be wondered at if they are many of these of no use little.
that those which are of most use, are not of the use they
might be for want of being known as much as they
might be: for that there is a method whereby they might
be made known: not this method is endeavoured to be found
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That different kinds of Laws require different degrees

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of pains to make them known and it is not to be wondered if in any are punished [by the judge] for the negligence of the Legislator.

It is an observation of the Author of the Commentaries
that it is not here, as under the Roman Empire, where
1 Comm 185. formal promulgation was necessary of the Sovereign's edicts to give them a
force of Law: adds the Author of the Commentaries
whose observation this is vrly say he "every man in
England is in his Judgment of Law, party to making
of an Act of Parliament, being present thereat by his
representatives."

This instructor of Youth, who thinks one should imagine
that any thing is permitted to that character,

PROMULGATION. Necessity of

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is not as harried to let this pass under the Sanction of
his authority for a reason, tho' few who have any, can
avoid acknowledging it for one amongst more than a
few examples where the Judgement of the Law is some
very singularly different from the Judgement of Common Sense.

Bad is it with that Youth in whom a passage like
this excites no movement either of laughter, as his time
paramount is, or of indignation: placed as it is thus
Ill betide securely out of all reach of Criticism: for by what medium
go about to prove that the knowledge of John
Nokes is not the knowledge of Tom Stiles? *

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"The Things between God & Man are but few, says
the learned Seldon, and those forsooth we must be
told often of; but things between Man and Man are
many: those I hear of not above twice a year; at the
Assizes or once a quarter at the sessions; but few
come there; nor does the Minister exhort the People to
go at these times to learn their Duty towards their
Neighbours. p.97.

* This reason however tho' the Author has adopted it
for his own, to do him justice is not of his invention
it is taken from the passage of Ld Cokes Institutes
to which he refers who dilivers it as found in a Year Book

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