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27 Jany 1808
Foreignership therefore constitutes no objection in relation
to such a work of this particular nature affords no presumption
of comparative incompetency.
There are poi Points are not wanting on which it may
serve to constitute a ground of recommendation, afford affording a presumption
of comparative aptitude.
To a In the case of a native, there is no
assurance of his no presumption of his possessing having any acquaintance
with any system of established law other than
his own. In the case of a foreigner there is his condition
in respect of foreignership, this condition circumstance to look no
further affords a presumption, and surely not an inconducive
one, that in applying offering himself to the task of drawing
up a body of law for a foreig another country, he will bring
to the work some degree a stock of information, more or less considerable
on the subject of his own. Acquainted more or less, with the
good and bad points of both systems, he it will be so much
the easier to have in the framing of his the laws execution of his task to avoid steer clear of
introducing these any arrangements the evil consequences of
which have been made known to him by experience.
Thus the matter stands in respect of intellect qualifications of
the between a foreigner and a native in respect of intellectual qualifications
of the intellectual class.
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