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LARCENY.

ANOMALOUS DOCTRINE RESTRICTIVE 1

If we now measure the amplitude of the excepted members of these capricious divisions, by applying to them them to the celebrated natural division into the 3 grand classes or Kingdoms as they are called the Animal, the vegetable and the Mineral If after
any one thinks it is compleat: There is nothing here of a base nature but the intellects of certain Lawyers, who destituted themselves of all natural knowledge & ignorant of it's value, have refused the protection of the Law for their property to men more better deserving of it than themselves. he will find himself very much disappointed: so true it is that
voluminousness in Jurisprudence is a thing very different distinct from & often opposite to universality of comprehension either accuracy or comprehension. perfection

The most voluminous laws are not the most compleat. So far are all the offences from that come properly under this title of Larceny from having their
punishments duly adjusted, that there many thing is got a great multitude of very valuable articles the stealing of which is nor under any
circumstances deemed Larceny at all:

It does no honour to the Jurisprudence of a enlightened nation that the immense collection of knowledge which is its ornament & it's glory, may be ransacked with impunity of its choicest treasures because nothing in it is good to eat. In the first place — every thing 1st some things + + 1 Hale 512 - 3 Coke Just. 109 that it are it wold is at the same time by nature (tho' actually time), reclaimed as it is called & not
fit for food:

If any body asks me of what are those things are? I answer from Ld Hale Bears
In the second place boxes & Ferrets; & from Ld Coke Apes Monkies & Polecats; & from both the Whelps or Calves of those <add>the animals which each has respectively enumerated:</add> if I am asked what besides, I answer I know nothing of the matters for similitude
of Law [not specified] is to be collected from similitude of reason: & it is plain enough that reason
has here nothing at all to do with the matter. in the affair.

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