Historical Law-Tracts #246457

From that of England; and if the author be not in a mif'take, through partiality to his native country, we are rich enough to repay with interett, all we have occafion to borrow. A [regular inf'titute of the com mon law of this ifland, deducing hil'rori cally the changes which that law hath un dergone in'the two nations, would be a va inable Iprefent to the publick becaufe it would make the tindy of both laws a, talk eafy and agreeable. Such inftitute, it is true, is an undertaking too great for any one hand. But if men of knowlege and genius would undertake particular branches, a general fyf'tem might in time be com pleated from their works. This fubjeét, which has frequently occupied the author's thoughts, mutt touch' every Briton who.