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NOTORIETY. N. YEAR BOOKS Want of.

(1 In the case entitled the King against Wheatly + +Hib 1760 - 2d Burrow 1125
N.Y.B. Mischiefs from the want of. Example.
The Deft: being a Brewer had been Indicted
for a Cheat in selling a less quantity of the
commodity in which he dealt "as & for" a greater.

The man being convicted, & the prosecution
run on to the last stage a motion is made
in to Arrest of Judgment & no fewer than 4
cases precisely in point came out, where it
had been decided that for that the species of delinquency
in question no Indictment was to be maintained.

Now it is certain as far as any thing with
Law is certain, that if all, or one may venture
to say, any of these cases had been deposited
in a publication wherever those whom it concerned
might know where to meet with them;
the vexation of this Suit would not have
happen'd: no man than it would of any of
those other Suits if the event of those preceding them


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(1 had been promulgated in like manner.

Thus had 4 had 4 sets of Prosecutors one after another
(that are known of) been harrassing themselves
& so many Defendants about the gaining of this
one point, after which the Law without their knowledge
had pronounced it to be unattainable.

Thus it is in short that the property, the
liberty, the personal security & even the life of
the subject is suffer'd committed on so many occasions
to this hour to be the sport of fortune: for I know
not what else it is, if it be not Fortune, that is to determine,
whether there be an Advocate who is
in possession of such a case, or who has a friend
or a friend's friend who is, & whether the Advocate
in question or the friend or the friend's
friend suspects he has it recollects his having it, & whether that one
of them who suspects he has it, succeeds in
finding it, & whether in short such Advocate
from admidst the variety of competitors, happens
to be employ'd. pickt out.

The world is left in a flame, that Lawyers may
roast their Eggs.


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NOTORIETY. N.Y. Books Nonpublication D1 Private notes insufficient

N.Y.B. Obj. 2. May be Seen in Ms
(2) The only thing argument that affords the shadow of
an excuse for this excuse, is founded on
the supposition of that being done, which
is not only extremely difficult, but physically
impossible — It may be said, (for
I have heard it said) that the industry of
each particular person may stand in stead
supply the want answer the purpose
of the general provision. This would be
regilentibus non dermientibus subvenient leges true - if in the 1st place, men could take
notes before they were born in Westminster Hall, while at the University,
while at School, & before they
were born If a man could learn the art at either of the aforesaid Universities so to exalt his powers by Truth as to establish a in Unity in his own person. 2dly If the same man could
be at in the 3 courts at once — 3dly If
ten men could dispose themselves in
the space that will receive but one — It is
known that no one court in Westminster Hall
will hold the 10th part of those who under the
confined character description of advisers only have occasion to
be apprized of its determinations. . . .


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NOTORIETY N.Y. Non-publication D2 VOLUME.

(2) determination
as to the situation of the great bulk of mankind, who
at their peril must be actors, what their
situation is, I leave to any every one [who reads]
from these observations to infer conjecture, & from
his own experience to declare. assert <add>pronounce.</add>

There is no occasion for employing any one
person about the matter: for if two or
three hundred employ themselves in the same business with equal
diligence and capacity, there will
be no need of him.

(3) Were the Law all digested, and all published,
a less degree of study than is
necessary to qualify a man for an the
Attorney desk, would qualify him for the Bar,
Nay would qualify him as far as study
can qualify a man, for the Senate; and
that not as those who come as Cincinnatus
from the Plough, or as
the : but as those who come there after from a
long course of discipline at the Bar.

LIV.



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100

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003

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notoriety n. year books want of

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001

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2

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recto

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Penner

jeremy bentham

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