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1826. Decr. 7
Review of Humphreys

Ch. Agenda
(7 §.1. as to Matter

Definitions. say rather Expositions. Definition
What is commonly Stated meant by definition — definition
it differentiation — not being applicable to a term which
has no superior query: in which case is a large tribe. Of
the necessity need of an authoritative exposition, as an
operator without which no approach to certainty as</del in the nature
of the case attainable on Author seems to several
leading terms he ha accordingly applied to it. [+]

These are
Land
Settlement
Charge
Release
Conveyance
Assignment
Execution of a Deed
Trustee I have looked over
his in this view: and no fewer than 289 candidates for
so I have found. In compensation for the burthen comes herein
the consideration that among them in large proportion are those which
apply to every part of the field of law as well as to that which is<lb?>the subject matter of his present labours.

The words thus presenting a demand for elucidation may present
be ,/del> themselves as divisible into classes

1. New terms devised of necessity for the use of the new arrangement
His Purpose of to render of all sorts Examples
3

2 terms of universal jurisprudence: purpose of exposition,
giving clearness and fixation to the on the part of all
readers. Examples 1. Obligation. 2. Right. 3. Power. 4. Liability
5. Responsibility. 6. Possession

3. Terms of extension import, and necessarily frequent occurrence<lb/in universal use. Purpose of exposition fixation. Examples
1. Lands. 2. Works 3. Machinery 4 Timber 5 Farms 6 Dwelling House

4. Terms of which the among lawyers the import is different from
<what it is among persons at large. These as being so many
senses of misconception and deception should be carefully excluded
out of the Code, and terms universally intelligible substituted.

Examples. Voluntary instead of gratuitous conveyance instead of to lay ,lb/>voluntary here for its opposite involuntary compulsory. 2. real
property. In ordinary discourse it has for its opposite unreal —fictitious

IX. IV. Ambiguity. Cause of it first 1. 2.
employment of ambiguous terms
and
phrases of the

For the, this,
its various shape I I twice of appropriate render
They all are be at my learned

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Date_1	1826-12-07	Marginal Summary Numbering	Not numbered
Box	078	Main Headings	Review of Humphreys
Folio number	160	Info in main headings field	Review of Humphreys
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	E7
Penner		Watermarks	J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1826
Marginals	George Bentham	Paper Producer	Jonathan Blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1826
Notes public		ID Number	25251
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