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The Law of England, say the writers, has
two branches: there are two parts of it,
the written and the unwritten. When they say this, what is it that they mean?ByThe
Law, for it to have any signification, should mean
a collection of Articles of each of which
one may say, that it is a Law. ThisA
signification thus, which the written park of
it actually has, as every one may
Now then with the respect to that part that
is termed unwritten. This then, being still
the Law, should consist of a number
of like Articles of each of which it may be said,
that it is, a Law. Where then is that
one article in it, of which a deleted textcan say so? Let any one produce it.
This at least should not be a not
is a lash which one should at least expect
to be fulfilled bythose writers who with so much
profess to back what Lawwhat
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a Law is, and what in particular the Laws
of England.
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