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not specified anew, but left to be collected
from the practise in pari materia by
an obvious analogy — in the one, in short,
the penult sanction is specified; the
declaratory appropriating part supposed: in the other,
Puffendorf heavy without being exact the declaratory part is specified, the
sanction supposed — Blackstone in making his own the merit of exposition he was forced to abandon the merit of criticism. he was forced in a manner to amalgamate their errors into his own sentiments: and to but a Law to be
a Law, as is obvious of itself and required by the writers on the must have include both either tacitly
or expressly, or in the want of the d appropriating
part it will be nonsense and
unintelligible: if the sanction, intelligible
but nugatory and inefficacious.
Besides these there are several, where the
both appropriation is new and therefore particularly
specified; and the which forms the sanction is
also new superior to the ordinary and
obvious one and therefore specified
likewise the latter merit tho' more brilliant was is perhaps the least difficult of the two; and required for it's existence the preexistence of the other: it was necessary the whole system should be accurately exhibited and clearly understood before it could be criticized to advantage. — they will have each their place It is not [merely] for the variety of criticing that celebrated writer that I make this remark find fault with his division — the speculative errors, that have no practical ill consequences, if on in this subject there are any such
therefore & in two different classes [and
require demand examination on their two different
sides] that of Penal Laws from their
sanction and that of civil Oeconomical
or Public as it may happen from their
appropriating declaratory part — I leave to those who have more leisure & more patience than myself I. to render
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