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1830. Decr. 1.
Constitutional Code.
Ch. General Rules
§.

In the case of To every legal instrument, for whatsoever
portion of the matter general words the
same for every individual of the sort of instrument
in question can suffice have a printed
form, containing all such general words. And
to this form, attach so much of the Law relative
to the sort of instrument in question, as can
be printed upon one side of the same sheet.
If the Law be too copious to be, the whole of it,
thus inserted, give information of the remainder
in the way of reference. Give a compleat set
of rules for the exclusion of ambiguity int he use
of the plural and singular numbers. Among them,
exemplify the case in which the singular, with
the word any, preceded by the conditional adverb,
if, denotes – not only the singular, but the plural,
as also the singular and the plural both. If any
person shall so offend – by this formulary, what
follows will be predicated of all persons so offending,
although the word person is not in the plural,
but the singular.

These rules, if laid down in time in the
English Code, would of themselves have sufficed to
save several moderate volumes of Letter Press,
besides excluding ambiguity, which was thus frequently
produced.

The word either, is here used constantly
in the disjunctive: it is never used as a synonymous
to each:– a vicious locution, which has
sprung up of late years, having been introduced
by poetry.

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Date_1	1823-12-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	22-24
Box	549	Main Headings
Folio number	098	Info in main headings field	Constitutional Code
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