PREFACE ?O THE SECOND PAR? 



157. IN the First Part I adopted the mode of numbering the 

 paragraphs, a mode which I shall pursue to the end of the work ; 

 and, as the whole work may, at the choice of the purchaser, be 

 bound up in one volume, or remain in two volumes, I have 

 thought it best to resume the numbering at the point where I 

 stopped at the close of the First Part. The last paragraph of 

 that Part was 156 : I, therefore, now begin with 157. For the 

 same reason I have, in the Second Part, resumed the paging at 

 the point where I stopped in the First Part. I left off at page 

 80 ; and, I begin with 83. I have, in like manner, resumed 

 the chaptering ; so that, when the two volumes are put together, 

 they will, as to these matters, form but one ; and those, who may 

 have purchased the volumes separately, will possess the same 

 book, in all respects, as those, who shall purchase the Three Parts 

 in one Volume. 



158. Paragraph i. (Part I.) contains my reasons for numbering 

 the paragraphs, but, besides the reasons there stated, there is one, 

 which did not then occur to me, and which was left to be suggested 

 by experience, of a description which I did not then anticipate ; 

 namely, that, in the case of more than one edition, the paging may, 

 and generally does, differ in such manner as to bring the matter, 

 which, in one edition, is under any given page, under a different 

 page in another edition. This renders the work of reference very- 

 laborious at best, and, in many cases, it defeats its object. If the 

 paragraphs of BLACKSTONE S COMMENTARIES had been numbered, 

 how much valuable time it would have saved. I am now about 

 to send a second edition of the First Part of this work to the press. 

 I arn quite careless about the paging ; that is to say, so that the 

 whole be comprised within the 134 pages, it is of no consequence 

 whether the matter take, with respect to the pages, precisely the 

 same situation that it took before ; and, if the paging were not 

 intended to join on to that of the present volume, it would be no 

 matter what were the number of pages upon the whole. I hope, 

 that these reasons will be sufficient to convince the reader that I 

 have not, in this case, been actuated by a love of singularity. We 

 live to learn, and to make improvements, and every improvement 

 must, at first, be a singularity. 



