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Certainty. Stare Decisis

There are two 2 reasons for the utility of this maxim
The one is 1st the check to the Judges
The check to Judges by this means would be still more striking visible & uniform, as no weakness or partiality would flatter itself with this hope it be hazarded under the cover obscurity cover of obscurity The other 2nd that men are subject may have a certain
to guide them & know what they have to expect
For to the first that together with the independency
of the Judges that we owe that purity in the Administration
of Justice carried to that degree of perfection in which we see it of which, this Country perhaps affords an
instance entirely singular in the world.

The latter is very much weakened from the that unaccountable
neglect in which the decisions are suffered to
remain as soon as pronounced perhaps equalled by nothing but to [the care &]
anxious cautious integrity with which they are formed

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once in a Century when too voluminous every thing that was general might be & enacted into Laws every the rest prohibited to be or taken any notice of In process of Time which end must be very distant from the present every thing that was general might be exhausted & the Code of Laws become compleat no matter how voluminous that work should be seen it would be the only work & the perplexity of follow grasping particular cases would be at an end - were it ever to amount to 100 well fitted folios and unhappily the number

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	050	Main Headings	procedure code
Folio number	124	Info in main headings field	certainty stare decisis
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	jw
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	16115
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