★ Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
VOLUMINOUSNESS
It is by the wanton and deplorable waste of Paper committed made by all Legislation, much more so
than from the return of the work stormy nature of the subject itself, that a Digest of say of the Law is found to be
voluminous a work:— What need for instance in a work <add>too which professes to be a compound</add> to prove only of Homer with
Justinian that the is a gregarious animal by a passage from Homer which does
prove it after all proves no such thing as if that absolute Emperor had it not otherwisein his power willing to establish
the doctrineproposition which he inferrd from it's so being, had it not otherwise in his power
... Now it was no
for -driven to read Homer
in start but than ever in
Constantinople than it is now and England
I make of this fourh,
as being for this concire-
nets, to How how much further
that property to carried
if all improperucity were to
be [rigorously] lopped off.
What need for the preposterous moderty of this word "indeter" recurring in every page
a mode of language as inconsistent to with that precision which is the mark indiscriminate of the formal quality first quality property <add> month</add> of a Law or worth thing
majority of the foreign power: which belongs from under the name of the Lowery
the dispensations of indeterminate of the compitor commentator, like the chemothestic features of the dominal ill-cover'd by the Lion's .
More than half that work immutable as it is will be found to be take up by the
disfrutation upon out to the length of 1/2 a frago to hear indetermined after all what
two words wantd have determined either cray with equal utility.
II Note This practice seems to have had its
in good manner from the notionlaw is more confirmation
that no alteration must an exclusion
<add></add> conformity to the confused Idea of no end:
Natural Justice, where dictates than
fore it was the to find out
wheras by farr the greater than of
ability accend not from the pardon
of our in , but him
the establisment of
Fear of diputation wereis
and neither is nor is any thing. easier than for one man standing in the station of apleader to
employ a when a question, whcih another endocrted with for authority shall decide with perfect
or him or one or him
And to this, of many for
to mention a a out of its place
is the underestimations
of our Common Law; which consists of but a few axioms
trial propositions, floating in an immense Law of controrering.
not upon the Legislation of the effects of a more modern and equally
pace, who not content to "disdain" without they who " statute of command" are made to talk in a language which often a counts as much from
him corrdardent lines of {simplicity proponents}
of his Majesty
from Magesty
whom utility would either way have
followed the decision
when a decision ishan pusmanent of
pronolified will either way be followed
by Justice + by Utility.
by a loquacious pampant<add></add> Laughting as that of the Roman Emporor
by a cruping vorrecolution
There examples will suffice
to illustrate the aphorism That "The Laws should command J not ad argue dispute" of the
Bacon who to all the majesty of genius and examplified in that invaluable
collectiopn of Jurisprudence maxims Aphorisms of which
there is one, adds more of the precision of Ju
intermuted judgement exporance than his age could reasonalby have hoped to see, and is more truely
perhaps than the Grecian Critic of whom it was first applied " himself the image an example of the great sotlaine he
draws."
So distant from true dignity,
from eligance precision
COMPOS Statsingly as a discourse. General Idea [ ] . Battologia fastuosa hoesitatomae Justinian Louis
Identifier: | JB/070/062/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 70. |
|||
---|---|---|---|
070 |
of laws in general |
||
062 |
voluminousness compos. stat. singly as a discourse general idea |
||
001 |
|||
text sheet |
1 |
||
recto |
|||
jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]] |
||
23177 |
|||