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is best acquainted with the state of the law in so far as it<lb/> | |||
is <add>may be</add> discoverable <del>in the</del> <add>on the face of the printed <del>and its</del></add> books, and other generally accessible<lb/> | |||
<p><!-- pencil -->27 Jan<hi rend="superscript">y</hi> 1808</p> | |||
<p>What? You <add>he</add> an Englishman a foreigner – <del>under <gap/></del> <add>take upon you</add><lb/> | |||
to draw up a body of law for us in Scotland?</p> | |||
<p>Yes: howsoever <del>far</del> <add>competent or incompetent in other respects</add> in other respects far from being <add>competent</add> equal<lb/> | |||
to the task, in the circumstance of being a foreigner, and in<lb/> | |||
particular this sort of foreigner, there is nothing to make me <add>him</add> more<lb/> | |||
incompetent, much to make me him less so.</p> | |||
<p>Be his country what it may, what lies before him<lb/> | |||
he can read: and of what <add>that which</add> he reads wherever he fails of understanding<lb/> | |||
the meaning he can enquire.</p> | |||
<p>1. To one <del><gap/></del> function and that alone his foreignership<lb/> | |||
would render him <add>the less</add> incompetent: <del>and</del> for that he does not undertake –<lb/> | |||
it not being necessary to the purpose. On a case stated<lb/> | |||
by a Client to a lawyer <add>Counsel</add> for his opinion on the question<lb/> | |||
What in such or such a point is the decision likely to be to<lb/> | |||
<del>qualify him <add>the lawyer –</add> for giving</del> the <unclear>barest</unclear> <add>safest</add> guide is – not he who<lb/> | |||
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is best acquainted with the state of the law in so far as it
is may be discoverable in the on the face of the printed and its books, and other generally accessible
27 Jany 1808
What? You he an Englishman a foreigner – under take upon you
to draw up a body of law for us in Scotland?
Yes: howsoever far competent or incompetent in other respects in other respects far from being competent equal
to the task, in the circumstance of being a foreigner, and in
particular this sort of foreigner, there is nothing to make me him more
incompetent, much to make me him less so.
Be his country what it may, what lies before him
he can read: and of what that which he reads wherever he fails of understanding
the meaning he can enquire.
1. To one function and that alone his foreignership
would render him the less incompetent: and for that he does not undertake –
it not being necessary to the purpose. On a case stated
by a Client to a lawyer Counsel for his opinion on the question
What in such or such a point is the decision likely to be to
qualify him the lawyer – for giving the barest safest guide is – not he who
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