862 ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. [BOOK VIII. 



few of the exactest wnters, or rather a very lew portions of 

 a lew authors, might be useiully received lor authentic. But 

 let the books be still reserved in libraries, for the judges and 

 counsel to inspect occasionally, without permitting them to 

 be cited in pleading at the bar, or suffering them to pass into 

 authority. 



Auxiliary writings. 



LXXIX. But let not the knowledge and practice of the 

 law want its auxiliary books, which are of six kinds; viz., 1. In 

 stitutes; 2. Explanations of words ; 3. The rules ol law; 4. The 

 antiquities oi law ; 5. Summaries or abridgments ; and 

 6. Forms of pleading. 



LXXX. Students are to be trained up to the knowledge 

 and higher parts of the law by institutes, which should be 

 written in a clear method. Let the whole of private right, ol 

 the laws of Meum and Tuum, be gone over in these elements, 

 not omitting some things and dwelling too much upon others, 

 but giving a little taste of all, that when the student comes 

 to peruse the corps of law, he may meet with nothing 

 entirely new, or without having received some previous 

 notion thereof. But the public law is not to be touched in 

 these institutes, this being to be drawn from the fountains 

 themselves. 



LXXXI. Let a commentary be made of the terms of the 

 law, without endeavouring too curiously and laboriously to 

 give their full sense and explanation ; the purport hereol 

 being not to search the exact definitions of terms, but to 

 afford such explanations only as may open an easy way to 

 reading the books of the law. And let not this treatise be 

 digested alphabetically, rather leave that to the index ; but 

 place all those words together which relate to the same 

 thing, so that one may help to the understanding of another. 



LXXXII. It principally conduces to the certainty of 

 laws, to have a just and exact treatise of the different rules 

 of law ; a work deserving the diligence of the most ingenious 

 and prudent lawyers ; for we are not satisfied with what is 

 already extant of this kind. Not only the known and com 

 mon rules are to be here collected, but others also, more 

 subtile and latent, which may be drawn from the harmony 

 of laws and adjudged cases ; such as are sometimes found in 

 the best records. And these rules or maxims are general 



