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1 Interpretation of the Code.
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Standard of interpretation, what the text 
 The examples that occur are put only to explain, 
not to restrain the purport of the text.
 Let the text be taken for the standard. It is the
 text that ought to be kept principally in view
 in order to judge whether a given case fall within
 the Law. The examples that are given are pr 
designed only to explain not to restrain the purport
 of the text. Let the text be the standard
 of interpretation. 
2.
Commentaries forbidden
 If any comment should be written on
 this code, with a view of printing out what is the sense thereof let no man pay any regard to it.
 Such comment shall not be cited in any court
 of Justice. In no manner whatsoever let it be
 cited: neither by express nor by any circuitous
 designation.
3.
 Emendations may be proposed. 
 But if any Judge [ or Advocate of the Crown or rather an 
Attorney] 
should in the discharge of his affair
 [of their respective offices] should course of his practice 
see occasion to remark
 any thing in it that appears to him
 erroneous in point of matter, or in point of stile defective redundant, or 
obscure let him certify such observation to the Legislative council together with the reasons for
 his opinion, and the correction he would propose.
 Moreover if it were any particular incident
 in the course of any cause that occasioned
 him to make the observation, let him give the particulars 
of such incident. 
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