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THEFT. ANOMALITIES RESTRICTIVE
Talking of that which had as intimates in union with the Soil of which the field
consorted, as any part of that Soil had with another. Unity was conceived to
extend exist so long so far as they saw contiguity uninterrupted.
This, Had it him, is far from being the least pleasurable of the errors into which men
must necessarily fall, when without thinking to lift up their eyes to the Index of
Utility, Dialectic analogues of allusions are the guides they follow.
But when they come to the giving of the Saviour of the Realty as a reason, why
the taking of a Ward is not Felony why the taking of a ward cannot be Larceny, +
nor of a Boxfull of Title Deeds, their doctricus it must be owned, savour a little of
extravagence: whihc however is nothing eclipsed in comparison with this pleasant conceit of
like according to which that the savourof the Deeds by the that encloses them, renders
it as worthless as themselves. It may be of service to fight to know any one who may chance to have an handsome or cupious box to put their property in, that if
for Edes Coker's word is to be taken for it, then Law has been made & a present of Box & all to
who shall take a fancy to it. Note. This about Box is left out by the in his larger <add>Halas smaller work inserted on the Pleas of the Crown for E>G> but it is left out.</add> I have seen Boxes for that purpose that have
cost several guineas some pounds.
Even the more sober deductions from the principle [ of a supposed necessary unifromity
of the Law concerning the whole of the points] when they come to be exemplified
like to dispute this suggest considerations which one should have thought would have given a shock to the solidity
of the Doctrine. If a man cuts down a tree and marches off with it immediately, it is all
very well, & no harm is to happen to him: But the Judges were forced could not avoid determining Hale J. C. 510 that if
he cuts it down " and after, about an hour's time, or so comes and pitches it away" this is
"in that interval the property lodgeth in the right owner as a chattel."
But this account is not entirely altogether satisfactory, & that it would have been well
told us with a little more precision, the time which chief such a metamorphosis since it does not take place at once, will will
take to operate: and it matter difficult nor does it seem easy to find the reason why this saver which will depart
go off in an hour or so at least who provided the Thief be about when the Thief is gone should not be able
to escape in God knows how long, during his while he is by.
Mean-while if this tree is were stuck into the ground again, or if a scantling if it
were cut off & truckled on to another, it formed a part of this realty again & and reqacquired this savor. &so takes quities as often
as it was disformed and reanimated: & thus the driving in of a nail and or drawing it out again
would as often determine, on the one hand whether one man was to have the Law's protection
for his won, on the other hand whether another man was to have or die.
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