The Law Magazine and Law Review - 1859 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 61 Akt. V.—THE MECHANICS OF LAW-MAKING. PARLIAMENT AND THE STATUTE LAW COMMISSION. AT the very threshold of every act of legislation lie the questions, ... more »What is the state of the law and what the grievance 1 What the expedients to which recourse must be had to make an effectual remedy ? What the expedients which it is politic as well as practicable to use ? and What, therefore, the specific purposes of the measure, and the exact resolutions and instructions by which that measure is to be introduced, and the particular provisions by which those purposes are to be realized ? Again, as in oratory, poetry, and every form of expression of thought and purpose, the question also arises, as to what is the form which is most convenient to use ? Many of the difficulties that beset our course through the in- organization of Parliament and of parties, and also the course of operations, which really, if not avowedly, must be taken in regard to each single instance of legislation, we set forth in the article entitled " Legislative Predicaments and Processes," published in our last number. We then remarked, " It must be reserved for another opportunity to shew the great scheme or outline of the end to be obtained, as well as the moulds or models to be used by the workmen, by which the utmost attainable simplicity and intelligibility may be accomplished; so that the legislator, judge, officer, lawyer, and common person, may each see that law which it concerns him to know, in the shape in which he specially needs it, and, at the same time, in a shape coherent with the main body of law, and calculated to give it not one but all the aspects in which law has to be regarded, without confusion or repetition, and without bringing to view more than the special user of the law requires for...« less