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CERTAINTY. STAKE DECISIS.
This baneful practice of had it's root in that
vague and inaccurate stile of Legislation [which
was] the best which the barburism pecipation<add>itancy</add> and ignorance
of the times would afford., which scarce ever
to fell either <add>was more or less than or fell short of</add> short of or beyond or beside what it
to express ; and the consequent accesity
in which the Judges found themselves , if to prune
to graft to transplant.
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The expressions of the Law were almost
always either larger , or more <add>narrower than , or
beside the Idea which it meant to convey:
The Judges were therefore as constiently called upon
to cut off to change , & to piece on.
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