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Observations.

that when once the adequate proportion of words is exceedid,
the more than not, the more they are in danger of not using
enough: an observation a proportion seemingly paradoxical, but
the truth of which , becomes apparent when it is
considered, that the grand cause of redundancy in legal
. discourse, is the roaming out into unnecessary
specifications, and that if by a thousand terms
of specific import, less may be said that by the the
general one to which they are subordinate.

Again, to the word removing of which is the in the statute,
I have restituted the word, "quitting :" because it
is a probable case that a person may quit the
without removing out of the house. A Parent
for example, becoming infirm, gives up
the management of the house to his child,
but continues there as a border. For right
vers rights like these there is a remedy in the
accustomed license of judicial construction: that it is but
an indifferent reason for making a law [in a piece
of work] that perhaps it may be mended. Not is it be
their own meaning, that judges may speak.
it for them. This is the answer to be given to these [+] [+] who are for retaining impropriety improper and language because it is of long standing, and
who think that a Legislator can may be too
accurate in the choice of his explanations.

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Folio number	086	Info in main headings field	observations
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