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1829 March 28
Petitions
Supplement
Postscript
§.2. Elucidations
Foreign Nations
To the Anglo American United States the ey his
eyes in the present as on all other occasions, of course can
not fail to direct themselves. But then in none of them the Constitutional; branch
of law excepted no is any such work has place: as a Code of law in existence <del. in that country
which in other respects in as so high a degree of felicity every
man shall labour under the load yoke of Common Law — English
Common Law — that system in the experience of work constitutes the occupation of the present
work. occup
The More Of the opponents of codification
a more argument consists is composed or is afforded by drawn from indicative
mode of the quantity of matter in the shape of with which
Bonapartes Collection of Codes has already been overgrown: and encumbered.
The first is incontestable: but the argument not
the ground for a conclusion in disfavour of codification<lb>does it afford: for if the shape of Statute law is exposed to be then
in the nautical phrase fouled, not less so but more so
is the so siled Common law
Be this as it may, a quantity of matter forms by
part and parcel of the Code which this object is compleatly done is already in a
state nearly if not altogether in a state fit for the press.
It is contained in the Chapters and following of his
Constitutional Code: Ch.</sic. VI. Legislature §§. Member
Motion: and <sic>Ch. XII Judiciary collectively §§. 19 Judge's<lb?>contested interpretation repeating function. §. 20 Judge's eventually
emendative function. §§ 21. Judge's sistitive or execution staying function. §. 22 Judge's preinterpretative
function.
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