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Notoriety want of Prelud
Now but is infinite to men to which he cannot
see an no: but no end can he see to that
hearing wrapt up in a number of Books Volumes of
which he knows not the names nor so much
as the number, not one of which he may 2 open 1 during
his life. Why shoud he open any of them?
When the purchase of his labor may be an eronious
Security, worse than the distracting ignorance
out of which it took him; when a history to rule of
Law is paying obedience a Monarch, of whom speaking
allways. ever with in the same tone of Authenticity one
should neer know wheher he was against or
dispose. Beyond the last reports decisoins published , supposing
them to be of the lt term, which they
never are & the Statute of the last Session.
There is neither no one Volume on which he can rely [with safety]
place his Trust. Ifthere be any one such
Volume of original Law, for I speak not as

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Notoriety yet of Completions, I should be glad to see it,
for as yet I have looked for it in vain.
I say nottaht there is not any one Volume of a date prior to what has been (mentioned) tho'
even this may be questionable) if which, were any
one to compare collatethe contents of it with what
has been arisen since, not a single while every it would be evntually found that
every Article was in Force - but I say, that if
there be much on any (and were this is questionable
it is more than any man can make sure of a ) can assure.
But we have Complations: and well it is for
us that we have these compilations for without them
it would be to every purpose of notoriety I speak not of the People multitude only, but
of those who do nothing else than but study it, as if
no Law was in the Land.

Tis these which take for each man what he
wants, or rather for ten or tweny men at a time of different
denominations what they want, together not
of the one, two or ten hundred times as much
with which they have no concern; & thus

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Identifier: | JB/079/023/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 79.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	079	Main Headings	law in general
Folio number	023	Info in main headings field	happiness and unhappiness - their kinds - note
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d13 / / /
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	25465
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