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1832 Jan 2
Pannomion
2
Throughout the whole field of thought and action
and thence throughout the whole field of law and legislation
has place the need of ^^^ and fixation
of the intented import of the several locutions which
are the sources and seats of the abovementioned imperfections.
Pregnant with evil in all its shapes
will be seen to these same imperfections.
Good, in one shape or other, according to the
occasion, is the end in view of everything which will
have been seen: good, meaning the greatest happiness of
the community of which this is the Pannomion.
From every one of these several imperfections
flows evil in all its shapes: for, in so far as they
have place in the body of the law, is liable and
wont to be produced the evil in the corresponding shape unintended.
Obscurity in discourse has place when, where, as
far as, andso long as the hearer or reader knows not what
is the meaning intented to be expressed by it.
Ambiguity in discourse has place, where two or more
determinate meanings being presented by it, the mind
remains undecided as to which of them is the meaning
which was intented which was meant to be expressed by it.
Indistinctness has place where of a mass of subject
matters it being the intention of the legislator that
parts should be considered as being the subject matters of so
many different modes of action: and to that end
of different enactments it is matter of uncertainty
where one part ends the next to it beings:
Seats and sources of these evils are these which follow—
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