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8 March 1807

Those jurisprudential scientific words and phrases,
are they then of no use? is the employment made of them is it to be numbered? are they among the abuses and
grievances with which the field land of law is at present loaded
and defiled? By no means. There are many of them
that are of indispensable use. They could perform each
of hem, as often as repeated on each occasion on which it comes to be repeated, the function of perhaps several
whole lines of words: viz: the collection of words necessary for translating
their the import of them respectively into words in general
use.

By these abridged modes forms of expression, discourses are
held with care, which such as otherwise if held at all
could not be held without extreme difficulty. Grammarians
understand, all who have science to write or speak occasionally
feel – the difficulty and embarassment that attends the
use of composed nominative but or accusative, still more
that of a composed quistive case: a word composed of a
whole law of words, of which to convey its the import clearly the
last ought to have the sign of the quistive case,
– the 's – annext to it: which sign a means of
the awkwardness of the location is now commonly left out,
the awkwardness in some measure masked, but at the expence
of clearness. In jurisprudence this difficulty would be continually
recurring and with indefinitely increased force, even it not for the
use of these necessary abridged abbreviations – this intellectual
short-hand.

The algebraist when he finds his himself oppressed
by the endless symbolical line of figures letters by which his composite quantity stands
expressed, substitutes a single letter to the whole series, and thus
finds himself at his ease. How would be f What would be his embarassment, if precluded from the use of of a this necessary resource!

Identifier: | JB/106/108/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1807-03-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	10-12
Box	106	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	108	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	34696
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