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Your Lordship will early perceive that<lb/> | <p>Your Lordship will early perceive that<lb/> | ||
a book of law upon this plan is virtually<lb/> | a book of law upon this plan is virtually<lb/> | ||
a <del>plan</del><add>project</add> of reformation, <add>[+]</add> and that every title of <note><add>[+]</add> add ref<gap/>d to <del>the</del><add>any & every</add> <unclear>motive</unclear> to the<add>people to whom</add> circumstances of which it is meant to be applied: </note><lb/> | a <del>plan</del><add>project</add> of reformation, <add>[+]</add> and that every title of <note><add>[+]</add> add ref<gap/>d to <del>the</del><add>any & every</add> <unclear>motive</unclear> to the<add>people to whom</add> circumstances of which it is meant to be applied: </note><lb/> | ||
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and immeasurable<add><del>indefineable</del></add> both of the which reduced<lb/> | and immeasurable<add><del>indefineable</del></add> both of the which reduced<lb/> | ||
to the <del>[comparatively</del><add>moderate</add> <del>slender]</del> dimensions <add>within</add> to which<lb/> | to the <del>[comparatively</del><add>moderate</add> <del>slender]</del> dimensions <add>within</add> to which<lb/> | ||
upon this <add>may</add> new plan <del>it would be</del> it would<lb/> | |||
be <unclear>confused</unclear><add><del>included</del></add>: <del>an improvement</del><add><del>inva<gap/></del><add>proposeal</add></add><add>an improvement the proposal of <del>which</del></add> which can not<lb/> | |||
be exhibited<add><unclear>represented</unclear><add>stand <unclear>expressed</unclear></add></add> in any of <add>considered as <gap/>ched</add> the title taken separately<lb/> | |||
but which <add>looked upon</add> must be<add>considered as standing exhibited<add><gap/>ling from<add>being deepicted</add></add></add> <del><gap/></del> from the [connection<lb/> | |||
which is <del><gap/></del> established <gap/> than <del>several</del><lb/> | |||
<lb/> | <gap/>ths]<add>resulting from <add>as the general result</add> method and expression <add>which will <del>will</del> have been</add> given to the whole.<lb/> | ||
<del>Upon This plan</del><add>it is evident that the plan</add> was far as it went would in<lb/> | |||
a certain sense be the distinction of the <hi rend="underline">customary</hi><lb/> | |||
or as it is so uncharacteristically deemed by us<lb/> | |||
the <hi rend="underline">common</hi> law: since whatever goes at present <lb/> | |||
under that name would would either be abrogated, or<lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline">homologated</hi> as the Flemish writers call it, that<lb/> | |||
is <del>in</del> expressed in the <gap/>nable<add>authoritative terms, </add> and <add>thereby</add> converted into<lb/> | |||
the form of statute law</p> | |||
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Your Lordship will early perceive that
a book of law upon this plan is virtually
a planproject of reformation, [+] and that every title of [+] add refd to theany & every motive to thepeople to whom circumstances of which it is meant to be applied:
it is virtuallycontains<add>may be considered as</add>conced into a a proposal for the alteration of
the laws at present in force in as far as they
differs from the model of supposed propition
which it is the design such title is calculateddele to bil:[+]2 But [+]2 In thea model courseconstruction of which proposedthis model the law of England was of course the principal but notby our means the only established body of law [whose excellence I studied to avail myself of the excellences as well as to provideexhibit a remedy for the defects abstraction being made of all local prejudices which whatever tenderness respect they might may claim from the hand of the legislation might asknever to stop the eye of the individual inquirer
must signal and perhaps impbeable
reformation of the whichall is that which would be
effected were the present indeterminable< prospect/add>undefinable content
and immeasurable<add>indefineable both of the which reduced
to the [comparativelymoderate slender] dimensions within to which
upon this may new plan it would be it would
be confusedincluded: an improvementinva<add>proposeal</add>an improvement the proposal of which which can not
be exhibitedrepresented<add>stand expressed</add> in any of considered as ched the title taken separately
but which looked upon must beconsidered as standing exhibited<add>ling from<add>being deepicted</add></add> from the [connection
which is established than several
ths]resulting from <add>as the general result method and expression which will will have been given to the whole.
Upon This planit is evident that the plan was far as it went would in
a certain sense be the distinction of the customary
or as it is so uncharacteristically deemed by us
the common law: since whatever goes at present
under that name would would either be abrogated, or
homologated as the Flemish writers call it, that
is in expressed in the nableauthoritative terms, and thereby converted into
the form of statute law
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