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ought to be kept principally in view, the examples which may be given being designed only to explain, not to text
No commentary
restrain, the purport of the law.
should
be written on this code with a view of pointing out the sense thereof
men
and
should be required to pay no
regard to this comment, neither
should
be raised in
it
any manner whatsoever, either by express words or by any circuitous designations whatany Court
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soever.
of
in
justice
passage appears to be obscure
up rather by
alteration than by
substitute, as
much
as you
be cleared
let it
comment;
retrench, add,
but never explain.
will,
By
the latter certainty will generally, perspicuity and brevity always,
will
more
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suffer.
words
words
there
which
about
there
are
more
are,
may
doubts
the
be
entertained.
The Commission on the criminal law shared the predecessor.
its
It
is
fate of
a valuable compilation to be
still
referred to as an authoritative exposition of the views of
the very learned lawyers
The truth
in a court of law.
subject treated
in the
whether any code,
come up
to
who composed it, but
call
the digest
no authority
that the difficulty
and
of, it
is
of
it
may
well
inherent
is
doubted
be
a digest or anything else, can
recommended by the Commission
of 1866.
has occurred to some minds that an attempt might
It
be
made
main
by
outlines
the report
of
enterprise
private
to
carry
out
such an attempt has been made in this work. treatises
upon various
divisions of the law,
authors, have been brought together,
body at
of
the
in
its
scheme which was recommended in the Commission appointed in 1866, and the
writers
may expound
same time
refer
to
their
so
and by
Different different
that a selected
several
topics,
and
such authoritative decisions
and enactments as support the propositions which they lay
down.
A
similar
system was devised by the
late
