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Selections from the Edinburgh Review (Volume 1-2); Comprising the Best Articles in That Journal, from Its Commencement to the Present Time. with a Preliminary Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes

Selections from the Edinburgh Review (Volume 1-2); Comprising the Best Articles in That Journal, from Its Commencement to the Present Time. with a Preliminary Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: cicntly proved bow well disposed they vere to do him good service in Ihc high and sacred office of a judge. Such are among the principal objections to this species of legislation. But it is to be observed, that while this is going on, there is amongst us a legislation cf another kind, proceeding with equal activity?that of the avowed and acknowledged legislature which every year sends into the world a cumbrous Collection of New Statutes. Between these two legislatures there is no unity of design; their works are as unlike, as the chara- ters of the authors and their modes of legislation. Of a law proceeding from such sources, it is not surprising that it is found to be uncertain, intricate, obscure, perplexed, inconsistent, full of refinement and subtlety, and subject to continual fluctuations. The law which is every term discovered and brought to light by the Judges, seems to vie in extent with that which is made by the Parliament; and the lawyer's library is every year enlarged by one bulky volume of statutes, and by several volumes of reported decisions. The new statutes of each year are swoln out to a bulk surpassing that of the year which preceded it; and every fresh term seems tobe prolific of more judicial reports than the term that went before it. So considerable are the changes and augmentations which are thus continually taking place in English law, that the treatises, essays, and compilations which have been composed on various legal subjects, require to be from time to lime renewed, that they may not mislead those who consult them; and upon many heads, an old law treatise is of as little use as an almanack for a year that has expired. The duties of a justice of the peace were formerly comprised in one small duodecimo volume; they are now to be searched for in five...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217550437
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 246
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217550436
  • Publisher Date: 04 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 445 gr


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