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Ch. XII. Judiciary Collections §. 14 and Rationale (3 as to § 12. 13. 14 16. 17. 18.:

In these three sections, completion is to a design, commenced in Ch. V. §. 10, continued in Ch. VI. §. and further continued in Ch. XI. §. 2. Objects embraced by it are the following.

1. Preserving for ever from deterioration whatever symmetry comes to have been established, in this and the other several codes of the Pannomion.

2. Minimizing and indefinitely retarding the need of consolidation laws: remedies, which, how necessary soever, can never be applied without difficulty & inconvenience.

3. Preserving the Pannomion from being enveloped in, and obscured by, masses of extraneous matter, in the shape of Reports of Judiciary decrees & proceedings, & dissertations grounded on them, adding to the indispensable burthen composed of real law, this excrementitious matter, to the ever increasing bulk of which, there can not otherwise be any end.

4. Maximizing the facility of it's melioration from all imaginable sources.

5. Disarming Judges of the arbitrary power of frustration and alteration under the name of interpretation: disarming them of the power, by divesting them altogether, and for ever, of the pretence. Hitherto, in all places and at all times, has this power been exercised: and, in the effects of the exercise given to it a mixture of good with the evil being frequently to be found, and the good the most prominent of the two. -- never, without unanswerable objections, could it be either condemned or justified. By the here proposed means, now for the first time, the evil may be effectually excluded, nipt in the bud, and the good left pure. Under the existing system, scarce can imagination suggest the improper liberty, which a Judge will not take with the declared will of a legislature: under the here proposed system, none will any Judge ever dare to take: for, the sources of excuse elsewhere so abundant will here be altogether wanting.

6. Securing