15 Jan y 1806

Though the importance of this uniformity is the same in every /both/ case the difficulty of attaining /securing/ it is widely different according as it is in the shape of statutory or in that of jurisprudential law that the rule of action on the subject in question presents itself.

(When it is in the shape of statutory law) Suppose the rule of action throughout in the shape of statutory law, the question of law would in every /each/ instance stand on no other ground than that of the sense proper to be put upon the article of /words of the/ law in question, compared with the words of the several /as many/ other articles in the /if any/ body of law, if any, that happened to bear reference to /in/ the same point. In this case the terms of the rule of action the words of it being given, open alike to all eyes, all eyes without any /with little/ other difference than that between the strength natural and acquired /by exercise by[?]/ of an understanding compared with that of another - how, if there were any difficulty, at any rate there would not be any legal difficulty. If, as here and there would be the case, there were any demand for science[?] - appropriate science, at any rate it would not be legal science.