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9 June 1811
Nomography

Longwindedness a
secondary imperfection
conducive to obscurity
and ambiguity – the
two primary ones.

Ill effect Of Longwindedness

1. By the fatigue
with which it oppresses
the writer himself as well as
the reader, under
the impossibility of
finding an apt resting
place it forces him
on through the series
of words, and particularly
of appellatives
without allowing him
time sufficient to examine
into and adjust
their several relations.

Example 49 G.3.c.123
§. 16. Shares remaining
"unpaid to Officers
"and Soldiers in the Army,
"Royal Artillery, Provincial
", and
"other Troops.

Those are they or are
they not included in the
Army?

To say they are not
seems absurd.
But if they are, what
if any is the effect of
those specific appellations?
Answer to exclude
all the conquerer such
other species of the same
genus as are not maintained.
This, it may
be said is prevented by
the conluding words –
"all other Troops". If so
it comes to this that
though not conducive
to a wrong sense and in that
respect pernicious, they are
superflous.

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Longwindedness continued

Expositing of leading
terms is and essential
and indispensable part
of legislation.

Between such necessary
Exposition and
Longwindedness there
is a natural incompatibility.
By such
Exposition, so
far as it gives the
demand and pretence for
such incompatibility is
obviated. By the habit of Longwindedness
the mind
is prevented from looking
out for occasions for
Exposition: may even
form to itself
the idea of any such
operation as being subordinate
to the purposes
of law.

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Longwindedness – Remedies

I. Where Two (or more) subject-matters
are conjunctively
predicated of on various
occasions throughout the
code, predicate take
one of them alone for the
subject of predication in throughout
the text: then either
1. subjoin the other toties
quoties at the bottom
margin – or
2. Frame in conclusion
an article stating in
the instance of what
preceding articles that
which is predicated of
the first shall be understood
to be predicated of the
second.

II. So where two (or more)
subject matters are disjunctively
predicated of
viz. in some cases
Example, where that
which is ordered or permitted
to be done by
the (principal) Government
Treasurer is ordered or
permitted to be done by
his Deputy: –
and so of other Deputies.

Identifier: | JB/549/100/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 549.
Date_1	1811-06-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	549	Main Headings
Folio number	100	Info in main headings field	Nomography
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