A PROPOSAL FOR AMENDING 



First, All cases which are at this day clearly no 

 law, but constantly ruled to the contrary, are to be 

 left out; they do but fill the volumes, and season 

 the wits of students in a contrary sense of law. 

 And so likewise all cases, wherein that is solemnly 

 and long debated, whereof there is now no question 

 at all, are to be entered as judgments only, and 

 resolutions, but without the arguments, which are 

 now become but frivolous : yet for the observation of 

 the deeper sort of lawyers, that they may see how 

 the law hath altered, out of which they may pick 

 sometimes good use, I do advise, that upon the first 

 in time of those obsolete cases there was a memo 

 randum set, that at that time the law was thus 

 taken, until such a time, &c. 



Secondly, Homonymiae, as Justinian calleth 

 them, that is, cases merely of iteration and repetition, 

 are to be purged away : and the cases of identity, 

 which are best reported and argued, to be retained 

 instead of the rest ; the judgements nevertheless to 

 be set down, every one in time as they are, but 

 with a quotation or reference to the case where the 

 point is argued at large : but if the case consist part 

 of repetition, part of new matter, the repetition is 

 only to be omitted. 



Thirdly, As to the Antinomies, cases judged to 

 the contrary, it were too great a trust to refer to the 

 judgment of the composers of this work, to decide 

 the law either way, except there be a current stream 

 of judgments of later times ; and then I reckon the 

 contrary cases amongst cases obsolete, of which J 



