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repetitions apart there cannot be too much. on the contrary the fuller
it is, the better is the Student eased — The more faces under
which an article is there presented; the more chance is there
for that being one of them under which it happens to present
itself to him: especially with regard to Students at their first

entrance into the Study, person not of the Profession (if
it is proposed they should have the means given them of know
ing any thing about the matter) who are often at a loss to
to know what other faces or relations it is susceptible of, besides
that particular one under which they chance at first to view it.
As the number with which he has at any time to do is always
the same, viz: one only: whether the others with which he has
nothing to do, be few or many makes no difference to him --
being led to it at once by the Alphabetical clue, without

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Relative therefore to each case, there ought to be inserted in the
Index --1. A As many Titles [points] as can be picked out of it:
2.<superscript text their respective Synonymasunusually-spelled text, where there are any.
With respect toquestionable reading these last it is evident that it will not be necessa
ry under eachto insert that part of thedoctrine of the case which concerns it, but index one only for each groupeso as the rest be amply furnished with
references to conduct the reader to that one.
Many compilers have thought it sufficient if every Determination case
was placed under some one article of their own choosing:
while at the same time there might be twenty different accounts
upon which it might be material to a man to pursue that --
same Determination case; and consequently accordinglyjust so many chances
against his succeeding in pitching in the first instance (if ever
at all) upon that individual one [the consideration] of] which trd3 Privies -- 4th.
Strangers
happened to have governed the arrangement.

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A single example will serve to shew the inconveniencies of too
concise an Index, in a work otherwise of acknowledged merit.

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A Person in London as occasion to make an addition to
his House: he happens to hear that there are acts of Parlia
ment which lay him under certain restraints: [as with
respect to the Building of the Walls,] He is told of Cay's
Abridgement: 'tis the most modern one: he turns to it.
Under wha title may think to find it -- He turn to the Index and for "Walls" not there -- Pantry Walls
if this word happens to have been mentioned -- not there
It happens, that one design though not the only one of the
Statutes relative to that Subject was the prevention of Fires
and upon this consideration they are classed under this Title.
Now if the person from whom he has his information by whom he is put upon his searchhappens
to be apprized of the reason, ifhappens to have communicated
it, there is some chance of his lighting upon what he searches
for at last,and at the last if at all it probably would be.

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Box	070	Main Headings	of laws in general
Folio number	135	Info in main headings field	promulg. n. year books. indexes
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