3 July 1805

Evidence

Introd. Jurisprudential

Ch. Sources

''. 3. 1. Decisions

In the case of statute law, all laws to which any sort of obedience is expected, are committed not only to writing but to print, and sent /conveyed/ to a bookseller, of whom the whole collection may be bought: bought by every individual to whom it is possible to find the money, which is not the case with persons of some several hundreds.

For the same reason /By purity of reason/, in the shape of jurisprudential law, if on the part of those on whom it depends the instance were that men should obey them as often as occasion served instead of being punished for not obeying them, one process /operation/ would be, and that the first preliminary one, so to order matters that of all these decisions out of /each of/ which rules of law are equally liable to be drawn by the above abstractive process, when equal access should be provided /made possible/ by like means.

On these terms /At this price/, if jurisprudential law were indeed for any thing better than /any individual /being/ above the rank of/ a dog, the best foundation that it admitts, of, would there be laid for it.

All this which at the same time what must be evident enough is that in this way, even although upon every occasion the memory of the case even in every reason to be broken in to the backbones of bystanders as it is under dog law into them of dogs, the (but) knowledge that could there be made with /obtained if/ jurisprudential law would be but scanty besides the [...?] of it.