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<p>I have the honour to be &c</p> | <p>I have the honour to be &c</p> | ||
If the form be what I have endeavoured<lb/> | <p>If the form be what I have endeavoured<lb/> | ||
to make it, the <hi rend="underline">substance</hi> of the law would <del>lose</del><lb/> | to make it, the <hi rend="underline">substance</hi> of the law would <del>lose</del><lb/> | ||
<del>mind of</del><add>by being thrown into any other any<add>form lose</add></add> a great part of its utility might have<lb/> | <del>mind of</del><add>by being thrown into any other any<add>form lose</add></add> a great part of its utility might have<lb/> | ||
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<add>its imperfections in |</add> <del>soever</del> in point of imbalance <add>those <del>whose</del> excepted as to <add>which has</add></add><lb/> | <add>its imperfections in |</add> <del>soever</del> in point of imbalance <add>those <del>whose</del> excepted as to <add>which has</add></add><lb/> | ||
<del><unclear>incompleatness</unclear></del> <add>the</add> undeterminitness, contradiction<lb/> | <del><unclear>incompleatness</unclear></del> <add>the</add> undeterminitness, contradiction<lb/> | ||
<add>tautology</add> ambiguity, <del>and</del> obscurity <add>and unwieldiness</add> which it is the special<lb/> | |||
purpose of the form in question to remove. As a<lb/> | |||
<del>plan</del><add>model</add> of a digest it might be made <add>have its use</add> use of, [were the<lb/> | |||
matter <del>convey'd</del><add>included under<add>contained in it</add></add> by it ever so much disapproved]<lb/> | |||
looked upon as ever so expedient or impracticable]<lb/> | |||
although as a system<add>code of new law</add> of legislation it<lb/> | |||
should be deemed useless or impracticable</p><pb/> | |||
I shall trouble your Lordship at present I
shall give your Lordship no further trouble: but
in the course of a day or two I shall take the liberty
of sending one sheet more containing the
letters of the chapters of the three essays on indirect legislation
in reward, and on the influence of time and
place, in the state they are in at present, exhibited
at one review.
I have the honour to be &c
If the form be what I have endeavoured
to make it, the substance of the law would lose
mind ofby being thrown into any other any<add>form lose</add> a great part of its utility might have
otherwise possessif not thrown into that form. But the form
might be given to aany body of laws whatsoever werehow inexpedient
its imperfections in | soever in point of imbalance those whose excepted as to <add>which has</add>
incompleatness the undeterminitness, contradiction
tautology ambiguity, and obscurity and unwieldiness which it is the special
purpose of the form in question to remove. As a
planmodel of a digest it might be made have its use use of, [were the
matter convey'dincluded under<add>contained in it</add> by it ever so much disapproved]
looked upon as ever so expedient or impracticable]
although as a systemcode of new law of legislation it
should be deemed useless or impracticable
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letter 426, vol. 3 |
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