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9 March 1807

A To appear is to appear – the sense of it imprisoned,
what better more instructive explanation could such a word receive? Whether
at such a time or place John Stiles appeared or no, what
if there were such a thing as a question of fact, could such
a question be, but a question of mere fact? Yet this is among
the questions which English jurisprudence has thus improved
to convert into a question of law! number among questions of law!

Heirs – heirs of the body – Heirs by itself, a
word which lawyer must from the first have found in the
most common use, but which to which for the sake of certainty certainty's sake
in any book of real law it might not have been improper
to have subjoined an explanation – supposing it always
composed for other words in still equally more common use less susceptible of misconception, and at any rate not done selected for
the purpose of generating it.

Making my his will in favour of a friend who has a family
I give a man gives it to him and his heirs, meaning that his heirs
shall have it, which they can not if he sells it. What does
the English . He takes in hand and poisons the word
heirs he takes from out of it the sense he found belonging to it, he
be crams into it a sense he found not belonging to it.
The meaning of the testator was that the first object after
twenty should not deprive the others of it; the arm of making the law is invests
him with that power.

Identifier: | JB/106/117/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1807-03-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	17-19
Box	106	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	117	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c12 / e8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public		ID Number	34705
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