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NOTORIETY - New Year-Books.
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After that Plan had been as far presented as to extend into those years in which there are
Reports in Print, it might be a present might be given to any person of the first or two first ranks
to x in as many cases names of cases as he should think fit, of which one other Report should
be published all along, with the as yet unpublished reports from the general contribution.
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If the small degree of x respecting such publishers of reports as are now living,
should be thought a circumstance worth attending to, then which number of persons either of the of the
first only or the first and second orders respective orders might assemble and on separate lines of paper each part of the names of as many cases as the cases which he would
have reported anew unto a Ballot-Box, for the publication supplementary second reporting of which requisition might
consequently be made in the name of the whole Body."
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At the same time might be done accomplished x a 2 works of great utility, tho of considerable difficulty 1st decrying reprobation of
however short the few decisions occuring in each period which have been holden not to be Law (as the is)
2dly the Reprobating of the various reports of other decisions themselves unimpeached. — Works both of them of some
difficulty, inasmuch as they would require the concurrence of the whole body of Judges to for the sake of due solemnity of authority
profess accomplish; but especially the , which would naturally give occasion to variety of exclusions:
the former would be more easily disputated, as there it would not necessarily consist of any
more than confirming the opinion judgment already proposed enter on the reprobated decisions by
posterior ones. — Thus then, at the end of every years publication of the posts. there would be
two Indixes Expurgator" - one autumn Decisions: the other; Relatorium The one of bad decisions
- the other, of bad accounts of good ones.
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Task however long &, laborious it may serve as a horsecart x
The enterprise, however and important, when examined with a little attention, will
appear in no danger of being imprects. - Large Many & considerable tho' interrupted periods
within from the assigned to the present time, have been filled up by the of
different Authors, Reporters many of whom have given general satisfaction & left little
during those periods over which they entered to amend or to supply, either in the number of cases, or the quantity of the argument
in each. [one separably] — A Period of upwards of 40 years just past in the History of
the transactions of the King's Bench is either executed, or undertaken for, by a Writer,
destined to carry this branch of Litterature to the it's high state measure of perfection [by
which it is susceptible] — I know not that there has yet been found, nor do I think
there easily will be found that man, who will think himself able to point out
any improvement that could be made in any part which of that part of a work already
become voluminous ample with which the Public has been as yet obliged. As to all this prodigious period nothing is left by the Public to be done
but to wish pray that for the purpose of its completion Providence may yet spare for it's consummation a life already
PROMULG. N.Y.Books. Plan for.
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