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28. Nov. 1810
Prizes
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Ch. 1. Beginning
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s. 4. III. Insufficiency
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To vexation from
litigation, in as far of the engagement taken by the law must be added do from the complicated obviously ... and uncognizability of the law itself. On each mans knowlege of the law depends his expectation of the reward: on is expection of the reward, so far as the reward is of use, his service 21 Vive simpl &c. here is christ
The list of latent drawbacks would in this case be far enough
from being compleat - if, under the head of vexation, mention
were not made of that mass of vexation which has for its efficient
cause the obscurity complications uncertainty obscurity and uncognizability
of the law. It is from in the law that the title of the indvidual
must in this as in other cases be derived: it is
in the law that he beholds the found ground on which his expectations
rest: it is only in proportion as his conception and opinion
of what the law has done, and will eventually be destined to have done in his favour is determinate,
that his expection of eventually receiving the rewards held out to
him or supposed to be held out to him can be firm and determinate:
it is only in proportion as it is firm and determinate
that it can operate on his conduct with that fire and
sufficiency efficiency in which every the receipt of whatever service is expected
or wished for at his hads depends.
But, To every good <add>beneficial purpose from simple, certain, clear and cognisable as it
might be made and ought to be made, complications
uncertainty obscurity and uncognizability are in this country in
this as in cases every other part of the field of action
and legislation, among the attributes of the law. in the
part of one this man, utter ignorance in the part of that other man
and depr are made in one of the either of the law
in mixture of of knowledge ignorance and error, entrapping him into
hopes and vexation from which utter ignorance would have kept him for here is a variety of every a latent drawback making a real and consdierable, howsoever imponderable a defalcation from the reala value and effectuive virtue of the prof remuneration.
to be out of sight and observance of those in whose powers alone it is to
cure remedy <add>heal them the mischief would wear no name
than that of imperfection. But it being for the advantage interest
of those in whose power it is to remedy them cure them that
they should continue unremedied, and not only uncured
but exasperated and raised to the highest pitch of human endurance
the mischief obvious is of the number of those
which have for their manifest cause sinister interest and
therefore ranges itself with indisputable propriety under the head of abuse.
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