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The Juggernaut: Transcribe Bentham and crowdsourcing historical data

Kris Grint, School of History, University of St Andrews

<head>NOTORIETY Particular Codes — Principles of their Establishment. <add>R.S.</add></head><head>V</head>

<del>In the selection of the Titles for the Codes</del><lb/>In the selection of such Titles to which separate<lb/><note>In the business of settling <add>establishing</add> what <del>Titles</del> shall be the <add>Personal</add> Titles to which separate</note> Codes shall be attributed, it will not be sufficient<lb/>to look for them only in the Statute-<lb/>Book: but a separate Code must be established<lb/>wheresoever any set of Provisions, (or even any<lb/>single Provision) are seen which respect <add>affect</add><lb/>any set of persons, who in common language<lb/>are <del><gap/></del> comprized under a known & separate<lb/><add>appropriated</add> denomination. <note>Wheresoever the Law is seen to exert it's dominion over a mode of action the nature of which is to be practised <add>performed</add> not by all persons in general, but by a particular <hi rend='underline'>sort</hi> of persons, distinguishable from the rest by <del>any</del> <add>a</add> peculiar name.</note>

Thus for example, there ought <add>not the less</add> to be a Code<lb/>bearing the nam of the Undertaker's Law<lb/><note>At the same a Code entitled the Undertaker's Law is among those that will be required</note> <del>although</del> <add>because</add> <del>T</del>there is no such word <add>for example</add> in the Statute<lb/>Book as Undertaker - For There are provisions<lb/>regulating <add>under penalties</add> the manner in which Burial is<lb/>to be performed: <note>30 Car. 2. c. 3 32 Car. 2 c. 1 <unclear>Rult</unclear>. Ind. Wool. 37.</note>& <del>is</del> the persons, <del>by</del> whose occupation<lb/><del><gap/> to</del> <add>that is,</add> <del>is</del> are <del>called</del> <add>known</add> in common <del>lan</del>guage<lb/><add>by the appelation</add> Undertakers, <add>& no other.</add> & <del>these Undertakers are</del>

<head>NOTORIETY Particular Codes — Principles of their Establishment. <add>R.S.</add></head><head>V</head>

<del>In the selection of the Titles for the Codes</del><lb/>In the selection of such Titles to which separate<lb/><note>In the business of settling <add>establishing</add> what <del>Titles</del> shall be the <add>Personal</add> Titles to which separate</note> Codes shall be attributed, it will not be sufficient<lb/>to look for them only in the Statute-<lb/>Book: but a separate Code must be established<lb/>wheresoever any set of Provisions, (or even any<lb/>single Provision) are seen which respect <add>affect</add><lb/>any set of persons, who in common language<lb/>are <del><gap/></del> comprized under a known & separate<lb/><add>appropriated</add> denomination. <note>Wheresoever the Law is seen to exert it's dominion over a mode of action the nature of which is to be practised <add>performed</add> not by all persons in general, but by a particular <hi rend='underline'>sort</hi> of persons, distinguishable from the rest by <del>any</del> <add>a</add> peculiar name.</note>

Thus for example, there ought <add>not the less</add> to be a Code<lb/>bearing the nam of the Undertaker's Law<lb/><note>At the same a Code entitled the Undertaker's Law is among those that will be required</note> <del>although</del> <add>because</add> <del>T</del>there is no such word <add>for example</add> in the Statute<lb/>Book as Undertaker - For There are provisions<lb/>regulating <add>under penalties</add> the manner in which Burial is<lb/>to be performed: <note>30 Car. 2. c. 3 32 Car. 2 c. 1 <unclear>Rult</unclear>. Ind. Wool. 37.</note>& <del>is</del> the persons, <del>by</del> whose occupation<lb/><del><gap/> to</del> <add>that is,</add> <del>is</del> are <del>called</del> <add>known</add> in common <del>lan</del>guage<lb/><add>by the appelation</add> Undertakers, <add>& no other.</add> & <del>these Undertakers are</del>

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