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N.Y. Books. NOTORIETY. Non-publication.- Mss. no equivalent
N.Y.B. Obj. 2d. May be seen in NLs. . -
State the case of Judges of inferior Jurisdictions—
Welsh Judges Judges of Franchises
The Justices of the Peace, Municipal
Judges by Charter as the Recorders of Bristol
Kingston, The Sheriff's Court of London &c
many of whom cannot may not have interest with the
possessors of notes; none of whom can have
access at the time that the demand arises for
information.
|—| (2) NOTORIETY. N.Y. Books - Expense of.
N.Y.B. Obj. 1. Expence of buying Bodl. Cat.
By the Statutes of the Univ:y of Oxford, the each
Students engages to take purchase a Copy of the Catalogue
of the Bodleian Library, whensoever as often as
a new edition shall be published. This
Statute Catalogue already makes 3 [or Qu only 2] Folio
Volumes. Would this be an improper duty to
require of the Members of the Law Societies?
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(3) NOTORIETY. N.Y. Books - want of. Old Records published
N.Y.B. Argument a minori? Old Records published
When The Representatives of the People have lately
Votes of the H. of Commons 1772 taken order for the publication printing of the antient
Records, did they not well? & their constituents are obliged to
them: to preserve & make known public the precious
remains memorials of Antiquity, is doubtless an object
not un- -worthy of their care.
But to turn their attention to memorials the opening of those stories
of this description which are <add>matters rather</add> of satisfaction to the Antiquarian
to know survey, while those remain up communicated than of necessity obligation to the
People subject to obey, is it not [to begin at the giving Sweetmeats
before Bread wrong end,] and to furnish Luxuries, if one
may so say, while necessaries are yet wanting?
Which I am mistaken, if there be
any argument for the atchievement of the former
enterprize, that will not press with
tenfold force for [the that of accomplishment] of the
latter
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NOTORIETY. N.Y. Books. Obstacles - Monopoly. Serj. MAYNARD
(4) N.Y.B. Obst. Monopoly. Serj. Maynard.
Had he that learned man employ'd half the time in communicating
to the world those memorials of his own compilement [+] [+] on which he but set so high & probably so merited a value
which he bestowed on publishing these musty
scraps of obsolete Jurisprudence which nobody
reads, which are the foundation of no Judge's
decision nor of any Lawyer's practise, I know
not whether they the Profession would have recognized a greater
obligation, but I know they it would have received
one.
|—| (5 NOTORIETY. Romans
DIG. To be taught in Schools. Ex. Prec: Romans. Plautus.
It appears further We learn also from a passage of Plautus, that
in his time (when thru little shallow learning which antiquity
afforded was as yet but thinly diffused) was
The Municipal constitution of that Commonwealth the Country
together with the general principles of Jurisprudence
was for the youth [of any quality] —
standing beside of instruction
Parentes ... liberas ........ docent Jura & Legus
Plaut. Mortellaria Act. 1st Philolaches solus-
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NOTORIETY N.Y. Books Records no equivalent 1 expence, 2 Hiatus— 3 Inadequacy in point of number to the points <add>Inadequacy in in point of fullness.</add>
(6) N.Y.B. Obj. 4. Records may be consulted.
The expence of searching Records & precedents for
one argument only is said to have cost Ld
Somers £700. Answ. 1st. Expence... Find. contin- of Rapin Vol 3. p 40
in the notes — quoted in Holt's life 8 1764 p. 19
Ans. 2d. Hiatus's -
There are many & vast hiatus's in the
series of the Records, the fees having been taken as
if for entering, & nothing done - v. Reflections
on the Law 8 Davis & Reymers 1769 in Law Tracts [+]
Ans. 3d. Inadequate....
[+] I mention this much to help the recollection of men of Law, from whom only the objection is like to come
of it few only in comparison of the points of in which
a practiser has occasion to be instructed is the
determination to be found in these boasted histories,
which record every thing concerning a cause
but what has happen'd. [in it]
Nothing said of the fate of , in which shape
is brought on 9/10 of the business of a Person: nothing
of points determined at Trials by single Judges, where
the Issue and the Verdict are both General
nothing of the important Title of Evidence which of all others is of prime necessity to be understood kept in constant memory by the Client still more than by the Lawyer: nothing of a thousand other Titles which to enumerate it were & distinguish
would require a Volume. IV
IV.
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