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Offences involving in the description of them names of denominations common or proper - names of
sorts of places, persons, things — things real, things uncorporeal i.e. fictitious
such as offices &c &c may be uncriminestible (i.e. acts
though of like tendency may not be offences or not punishable)
in territories where such sort of place thing persons things, &c are
not to be found. Burn Even in England Burn speaks of English
laws rendered in this way inexecutable — such instancing instancing those
"which appoint an offence to be offender to be whipped by
"the common hangman — when perhaps there is no such Officer
Burn's Justice Conclusion. Instances are innumerable: I give this as most likely to be familiar.
Offences punishable in England by an Ecclesiastical Court
only — are they "misdemeanours" in New South Wales?
Points taken these might be started, enough to fill a
volume — all unresolved and many unresolvable. The whole
Act is but a vast of nullities and jusfails [+]
[+] Formed a Colony out
of an Act like this? —
Build a house as well
out of a load of brick bats
An act like these serve be formed a Colony? Yes: Cart
trade of brick bats would be enough for the building
of a house. As well might a House be built out of a
Cart load or two of broken brick bats.
Identifier: | JB/081/222/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
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081 |
petition for justice |
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222 |
bureaux conciliatoires |
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collectanea |
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recto |
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john herbert koe |
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in french |
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