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hoped, without vanity, be affirmed, that the Plan contained
in the Report of the Select Committee of the House of
Commons, on the Criminal Law of England, dated the
2d of April, 1824, is the only one that has ever been proposed
by which that difficulty may be overcome. When I
first conversed with the late Lord Gifford, then Attorney-General,
upon the subject, he showed immediately that he
was aware in what the difficulty consisted, by asking me,
how I could possibly unite the old with the new enactments.
I answered, that, in most cases, it was impossible, but that
I could get rid of the old enactments by proving, that
the influence of the subsequent enactments had so reduced
their operation as to leave nothing worth retaining. That
he agreed would do equally well; and upon explaining
to him the system that was to accomplish this, he assented
to the experiment of the Slave Trade Consolidation Bill,
and which afterwards passed in a law.
Besides the two divisions—"Offences against Property"
and "Procedure," there are two others, namely, "Offences
against the Person," and "Offences against the State."
From the exertions which the King's Printers have made,
and from the state of the copy, it will not be long before the
whole is in print. After this, I hope to be permitted,
with certain assistances, to proceed with the Civil Law in
the same way.
As to the Arrangement: a primary object has been, not
only to bring under view every thing that has been enacted
by the Legislature, decided by the Courts, and said by
Authoritative Writers, but so to arrange the matter as to
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