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25 June 1810 June
Fallacies

Posterity charmers
Ch.

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Such laws could not be perpetual unless the state
were perpetual: so it expected so to be? sure it might
not one of those laws be repeated?

Ld Cole was for making holding for void every Act
contrary to Magma Charta: if so, every act would be
void that imposed law-taxes

Perpetuity seeking Con and Conveyancers are reprobated
by lawyers.

Of a law the aim of which was to tie up the for ever
the hands of future legislators, a lawyer whose
if any one there were whose purpose happened to
be thwarted by it would say it were void.

For To From every man who to a grain of honesty
adds a grain of discernment on this occasion as on every other far for ever be such language.

Nothing can be worse than such measures: and an
Applied to the acts of the legislature means consisting
in the use of such language are too bad to be applied
to any the best end: nor in the present instance would
the end be served by it

When a Judge says such or such a law
is void, what he mans is I will not on my part
do any thing towards the exemtion of it: my decisions
my operations after and notwithstanding the law will
be such as they would have been had no such
law been made.

But on by the present occasion case, [there is no no room is afforded
room for the any exercise of power by such hands] the
question person whose operations are in question is
not the Judge, but the Legislator: whether a law
repugnant to the letter of any such perpetuity seeking
law

Identifier: | JB/104/213/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1810-06-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	213	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	34184
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