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1829 June 27
Nomography Collectanea. Inaptitude of the established.

From the Spectator 27th June 1829 –

Errors in Legislation. – A woman was on Saturday
brought before the Worship Street Magistrate, charged with
her master's silk in the loom. She had been first taken
before a Magistrate in the City; But he found that the
crime had not been committed within his jurisdiction.
It was contended before Mr. Broughton, as a County Magistrate,
that the accused and the accuser must be resident
in the same place before any Magistrate could interfere;
and as the complainer was resident in London, the
Magistrate had no jurisdiction. The Act of Parliament
was found to be so vaguely worded, that the Magistrate, as
the safest course, dismissed the case altogether. Mr. Philliips
the barrister then remarked, that it would really be a
very desirable thing for the gentlemen of the House of
Commons to keep a schoolmaster to attend to the language
of their Acts, for scarcely one of them could be produced
whose meaning was to be understood from reading it. Mr
Broughton – "We can only take an Act of Parliament
as we find it, you know Mr. Phillips."

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Date_1	1829-06-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	549	Main Headings
Folio number	161	Info in main headings field	Nomography. Collectanea. Inaptitude of the Establishment
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Category	Collectanea	Number of Pages
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Penner	John Flowerdew Colls	Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
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