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1829 March 28
Petitions

Supplement
Postscript
§.2. Elucidations
Foreign Nations

To the Anglo American United States the ey his
eyes in the present as on all other occasions, of course can
not fail to direct themselves. But then in none of them the Constitutional; branch
of law excepted no is any such work has place: as a Code of Statute law in existence in that country
which in other respects in as so high a degree of felicity every
man shall labour under the load yoke of Common Law — English
Common Law — that system in the experience of work constitutes the occupation of the present
work. occup

The Of the opponents of codification
a main argument consists is composed or is afforded by drawn from indicative
mode of the quantity of quisquitive matter in the shape of Common law with which
Bonapartes Collection of Codes has already been overgrown: and encumbered.
The fact is incontestable: but the argument not
the ground for a conclusion in disfavour of codification
does it afford: for if the shape of Statute law is exposed to be then
in the nautical phrase fouled, not less so but more so
is the so siled Common law

Be this as it may, a quantity of matter forms by
part and parcel of the Constitutional Code which this object is compleatly done curing is already in a
state nearly if not altogether in a state fit for the press.
It is contained in the Chapters and Sections following of his
Constitutional Code: Ch. VI. Legislature §§. Members
Motion: and Ch. XII Judiciary collectively §§. 19 Judge's
contested interpretation repeating function. §. 20 Judge's eventually
emendative function. §§ 21. Judge's sistitive or execution
staying function. §. 22 Judge's preinterpretative
function.

Identifier: | JB/081/365/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1829-03-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	365	Info in main headings field	petitions
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	street & co
Marginals		Paper Producer	antonio alcala galiano
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	26152
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