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Show 8 .A I'rop-o.~Jnt tt.o n ., . IOuchinoo the· C_ om__ p_i liltg, .a n~d -AnJendment, . 'J7 h - k untill fuch a ume, &c. . Law, was t us ta e~' (as )nftinian calleth them;) That is Seco~Jdly, Homonym_rce, d Re etition are to be purged away; cafo meer?r;' of :ted~~:~' a:hicJare b;fr RepDrted, and· Argued, And the ~a;es, ~ ~ d ~the Refi; The ]Hdgemazts, nevert~eto be retained, In ea o . time as they are; But Wlth }effe, to be fet down,every one'th cafe 'where the Point, is ar-a Quotation, ob R~~erhn~, fc to co:fift 'part of Repetition, part of gued at large; ut 1 t e_ . a e is onel' to be omitt~d. new Matter' The Repetr~ron, . . ,. Cafe['Jtiidged to the Contrary; h. d! s to the .Antrno1111£; f h T Jr 'J, a ft to refer to the Judgement, o t e It were too gre.at a 1_~1 t~ decide ;he Law either way ; except compofers, of t~ts wm ' f J dgements of later times : and there be, a currant fl: ream, c ~s ~1mongfi c~fes obfo!ete; of which . then, 1 reckon the£Cont:~ev~:th~ldfe, this djligence would: be I have fpokcn be ?~e. f Contradillion, be fpecially noted' and_ ufed, that fuch CaJer o h fc Doubts that have been fo long Mt colleCted; t~ the en:, ~G~~blin ,All the Judges ,~in the Excl~elitant, h l'vlaby etothrt br:yt ry t· t gb,e put into certainty. For to ar 1 amen , . . · qduoe ri tc, bamy ber~m, g.m g t h em I. n qu efHon ,/) under famed parues, ts to fl.k d N'lh beat Forum exjce1za. f -·'· be dt I e • 'd' a . hich are but Semina1·ieJ':l o DoHUts, , Fourthly' All. L ,e ~£rres, t:ft out and omitted, and no Jf2.!!.£- . and Incer1aintreJ, are to be Doubts :) well debated,. and left un~ : ries fet down, ~nt ot gre~t t d;ubting or upflarting, .f!!!!teries: d'eci_d€d, for dtf~u 6e;tou~h~d in Argu:nent, for Explanation; Whtcb, thought e~ hen to be ut into the Boo~s. yet were better to~~;, \th too grf~t prolixity, would b: drawn, . Lafil y ,Cafes Reporte . , d- s Report • Not in the Nature of an Ainto a more Com pen . ~o~ nd I~ ertinences' to be cu:t off: . This Confti- bridgement, b.ut. T autolJ~e~};. ~t:ble Re~orting which, many times, · tution, of Re- As' for Mi/prmtmg, an nJelt.JI.ll b b"t , amended. But more , porrers,I ob- fc d h Students that Wl e, 0 1 er, . ' . . tainedofthe cono.un t ~ b' n thin · intheReport). whtchlstsnot ~ King' afterll principally!) lfth~re be~ y d rhat is alfo to be reCtified; The ~::, ~ht~~~;e weH warr~nted, t~;: il~dr Then it refreth, but for your lv.laje- ' are two, ap- Courfe bei?gthlis P d found Lawyers, with fame honou~- . p~imed, 1 .ftp,to appoint fome grave:>at~ th Time to come; And then,tlus With a 10°· • ble fiipend to be R.cporters)lOT e : a year, a a > II · , · I peece,fiipend. is fetled2 for a umes. h C d e to the Study, and FoR. the .Auxiliary Booh4!) t atthoene .u;nhituti01JS; A Treatile, · w t e are r • 'J"' . . Sctence, of th_e ~ 'b Y B It De verborunJ ftgnijicattomburl de ReguliJ JuriJ';. An a ;tte:h:~nftitu.tions I know well there or Terms of the La»:· o(r h ith Stndents begin) of good be Boo4! of Intror/uelzons) w ercw worth~ oftbe Lawe1 of England. . I - ----------------- worth; Specially Littleton, and F#zherbert; Natura Brcvium, But theyare, no wayes, of the Nature, of an Inftitutions; The Office whereof, is, to be a Key, and generall preparation, to the Reading, of the Courfe. And principally_, it ought to have, two Properties; The one, a perfpicuous, and clear, Order, or lVfethod 3 And, the other, an Vniverft4ll Latitude, or Comprehenjion; That the students, may have a little Pr£-Notion, of every Thing, Ltke a Modell, towards a great Building. For the Treatife, de Regulh Jurif, I hold it, of all other Things, the mofi important, to the Heald!, (as I may term it,) and good In.ftilutions, of any Laws. It is, indeed, like the ballafr of a Ship, to keep, all up-· right, and frable: But I have {een little) in this kind, either in our Law, or other Lawes, that fatidieth me. The na/zed Rule, or Maxime, doth not the EffeCt. It mufi be made ufefull, by good Dijf'erenoes, Ampliations, and Limitations, warranted by good Authorities;And this,not by Raifing up, of Q!totations, andReferences, but by Difcourfe, and Deducement, in a JHft Tratlate. In this, I have travelled my 1eif, at the firlt, more curforily ; fince, with more Diligence; And will go on with it, if God, and your Majefly, will give me leave. And I do affureyour M.tjefty, I am in good hope, that when, Sir Edward Coo/zeJ Reports, and my R.u!es,and Decifons,iliall come to Pofterity,tbere will be, ( whJtfoever is now thought:~) Q!tefrion, who was the gre ter J dWyer? For the Booftes,of the Termes, of the Law, There is a poore one;But I wiili, a Diligent one, wherein, fhould be comprifed, not e nely, the Expojition, of the TermeJ,ofLaw; but of the Wordf~of all a unci en t Records, and Prejidents. For the Abridgements, I could wilb, if it were poffible, that none mought ufe them, but fuch, as had read theCourfe; Firlt, that they mought ferve, for Repertories, to Learned Lawyers, and not~ to make a Lawyer, in haft; But fince, that cannot be, I wiili there were a good Abridgement, compofed, of the Two that are exfrant, and in better order. So much for the Common Law. Statute Law. FOR the Reforming, and Recompiling, of the Statute L4w,It con .. fifieth of Foure parts. . 1. The Firlt) to difcbarge, the Booftu, oftho'fe Statutes, whereas, the Cafe, by Alteration of time, is vanHhed; As Lombard, 'Jewes> GaHir halfe Pence; &c. Thofe may, neverthelelfe, remaine, J? the Libraries, for Antiquities, but no Reprinting of them. The hke, of Statutes, long fince expired, and dearly repealed; For if J -------------t-he= -=--~ |
