30 Jan y 1805

Evidence

Securities

Ch. Engl. Proleg.

'' Bad Procedure Causes

Jurisprudence bad [...?]

7. The blind and abject veneration so carefully directed to jurisprudential under the name of common law in contradistinction to statute law: to a species of law in /the formation of/ which particular analogy is the chief guide, in preference to a species of law in which utility is at least the only professed guide: to a species of law formed in other times - in preference of a species of law capable of being formed in present times: to a species of law made /formed/ in dark[?] times to a species of law formed in comparatively enlightened times: to a species of law in /the formation of/ which the representatives of the people had no share to the prejudice o a species of law in the formation of which the representatives of the people have a principal share - to a species of law mixed up with acknowledged /defiled in /throughout/ its whole texture by/ lies and nonsense if any where to be found, are at least not suffered /admitted/ to enter any where but through inadventures. to a species of law of which the times being no where, the prospect is effectively and universally /perpetually/ unascertainable! in preference to a species of law of which the times, will as all expressed /conceived/ is to be seen every where /day/ by every body to a species /in a word[?]/ of law in which beaten by /unavoidable blows are employed/ instead of words, and of which the acknowledged quintessence of iniquity, the characters if in ex post facto law, are the characteristic offence, in preference to a species of /that paternal/ law, of which the avoidance of every thing that savours of that abomination is the final and constant care.

+ which punishes or Taken without warning, that for this /[...?]/ view of the punishment Sempronius may form a law to himself at his peril,