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be subjoined by way of explanation; distinctions and ex 

 ceptions by way of limitation ; and things of the same kind 

 by way of amplification to the rule. 



LXXXY. It is justly directed not to take laws from 

 rules, but to make the rules from the laws in being: neither 

 must the proof be derived from the words of the rule, as if 

 that were the text of the law; for the rule, like the magnetic 

 needle, does not make, but indicate the law. 



LXXXYI. Besides the body of the law, it is proper to 

 take a view of the antiquities of laws, which, though they 

 have lost their authority, still retain their reverence. Those 

 writings upon laws and judgments, whether published or 

 unpublished, are to be held for antiquities of law, which 

 preceded the body of the laws in point of time; for these 

 antiquities should not be lost, but the most useful of them 

 being collected, and such as are frivolous and impertinent 

 rejected, they should be brought into one volume without 

 mixing ancient fables, as Treboninaus calls them, with the 

 laws themselves. 



LXXXYII. But for practice, tis highly proper to have 

 the whole law orderly digested under heads and titles, 

 whereto any one may occasionally turn on a sudden, as to 

 a storehouse furnished for present use. These summaries 

 bring into order what lay dispersed, and abridge what was 

 diffusive and prolix in the law. But care must be had lest 

 these abridgments should make men ready for practice, and 

 indolent in the science itself; for their office is to serve but 

 as remembrancers, and not as perfect teachers of the law, 

 And they are to be made with great diligence, fidelity, and 

 judgment, that they may fairly represent, and not steal from 

 the laws. 



LXXXYIII. Let different forms of pleading be collected 

 in every kind, for this tends to practice ; and doubtless they 

 lay open the oracles and mysteries of the law, which con 

 ceals many such. And these are better and more fully dis 

 played in forms of pleading than otherwise, as the hand is 

 better seen when opened. 



