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A Law< | <note>A Law when <sic>compleat</sic>.</note> | ||
A law is <hi rend='underline'> | <p>A law is <hi rend='underline'><sic>compleat</sic></hi>, (that is in <sic>compleatly</sic><lb/> expressed) when the act it prohibits- (to take<lb/> the instance of a prohibition Law) <del>is so fully</del> and the<lb/> <add><del><gap/></del></add> punishment for it (to take the instance of <lb/> a penal Law,) <add>are so expressed</add> as that, granting the act<lb/> so described to have been done, no supposition<lb/> can be framed, on which, according<lb/> to the Will of the Legislator, the punishment<lb/> in question shall not take place<lb/> This being the case, <del>for Law <gap/></del> <add>one shall scarce</add><lb/>, <gap/> an instance perhaps of a Law <add>standing</add> entire<lb/> with <add>having</add> all <sic>it's</sic> parts collected together into<lb/> one continuous series <sic>uncompleated</sic> with<lb/> any part of any other Law.</p> | ||
Several qualifying <add>or restrictive</add> clauses there are which<lb/> are common to a large group of Laws:<lb/><pb/> | |||
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A Law when compleat.
A law is compleat, (that is in compleatly
expressed) when the act it prohibits- (to take
the instance of a prohibition Law) is so fully and the
punishment for it (to take the instance of
a penal Law,) are so expressed as that, granting the act
so described to have been done, no supposition
can be framed, on which, according
to the Will of the Legislator, the punishment
in question shall not take place
This being the case, for Law one shall scarce
, an instance perhaps of a Law standing entire
with having all it's parts collected together into
one continuous series uncompleated with
any part of any other Law.
Several qualifying or restrictive clauses there are which
are common to a large group of Laws:
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introd. a law - when compleat |
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