Lib. VIJI. Of the Advancement of Learning. 207 



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anobfcureand not fo fafe acourfe • becaufethe fame diligence ufeth 

 not to be taken in pondering aqd examining the words of a Preamble^ 

 as there ufeth to be done in the Bodji of a Law'xt ielf. This part 

 touching the Incertainty of Lawt proceeding from an ill Defcription 

 <?///je»/ we (hall handle more at large hereafter, when we come to 

 treat of the Tnterpretatio/i of Laws. Thus much of the obfcttre 

 Defcnption of Laws. Now let us fpeak of the ways of expounding 

 Laws. 



Of the divers ways of expounding Law and 

 folving Doubts. 



AFHO RISM LXXII. 



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'He ways o^ expounding Law and folving Doubts, are five. For 

 ^ this is done either by Court-Rolls ^nd Records j or by Attthen-' 

 tick.lVrits 3 or by fubfidiary Book/ 5 or by PreleStions j or by Refponfet 

 and Refolutions of Wife men. All thefe, if they be well inftituted 

 and fet down, will be fiogular helps at hand againft the obfair.ity of 

 Laws. 



Of the reporting of Judgements. 

 A P HO RISM LXXIir. 



ABove all, let the "judgements delivered in higher, and Principal 

 Courts of Judicature, and in matters of grave importance, Spe- 

 cially Dubious, and which have Ibme Difficulty and NewnejS'xn them, 

 be taken with faith and diligence. For Decrees are the Anchors of 

 of Law, as Laws are of the Republic^. 



APHORISM LXXIV. 



The manner of colleding Cach Judgements and Reporting them, let 

 be this. Regjjier the cafe precifely ^ the Judgements exa&ly^ annex 

 the Reafons of the Judgements 2i\\Qzdgcd by the Judges j mingle not 

 Authorities of Cafes brought for example with Cafes Principal. As for 

 Perorations of Pleaders, unlefs there be fomething in them very re- 

 markable, pafi them over with filence. 



AP HORISM LXXV. 



ThePerfons which ftiould Colledt thefe Judgements , Let them 

 be of the order and rank of the leamedji Advocates, and let them 

 receive a liberal Remuneration from the State. Let not the Judges 

 themfelv^s meddle, at all, with thefe Reports •■, lelt perchance, de- 

 voted to their own opinions, and fupported by their own Authori- 

 ty, they tranfccnd the limits of a Reporter. 



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