29 April 1804

Evidence

Forthcomingness

Ch 3 Means physical

§ [...?] 2 Search

2. The word Search presents a conception more complex and diversified. It is alike applicable to the case of personal and the case of real evidence. In either case, it places at least two objects upon the scene: a place or thing searched in: a person or thing searched for in that thing or place.

For things in which search is capable of being made there is one general name receptacles Receptacles, confining the application of the term to the case of a space inclosed in all sides, are of all sizes from the largest church to the case that encloses the minutest trinket. The degree /quantity/ of vexation producible by the process of search, will depend in no inconsiderable degree upon the capacity of the receptacle. Encrease it /Suppose it of//Raise it to/ a certain size, it then becomes capable of inclosing a human being, and if any such person be of /in/ the number of its contents the vexation is susceptible of a /an additional/ shape, very different from that which it wears in the opposite case. Hence one material distinction - receptacles habitable and uninhabitable.

In regard to habital receptacles, another very important /material/ distinction presents itself: the distinction between stationary /on the one hand/ and vehicular /movable or vehicular on the other/. Stationary, viz:. such as ordinary Houses and other /more/ buildings.

(a) House upon wheels, Barns &c [...?] altogether