3 July 1812

Evidence Introd

Introd

Ch. 23. Technically appropriate

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On this occasion, not to facts of this or that particular description, or not even to legally operative facts of this or that particular description did it seem competent to the purpose to extend the enquiry. Why? - because to such particular facts the enquiry could not be extended without applying /extending/ it to the several rights and obligations to which such legally operative facts respectively bear reference, and which by their mode of operation - by the effect the legal effect respectively given to them, they become by virtue of the dispositions made by the portion of law by which that effect is given to them /as and by which they are thus employed/ respectively constitutive - and if a book having for its contents matter of this description, the proper character and title would have been /be/ a book on the subject of law at large - substantive law - not a book on evidence, confined to the subject of evidence.