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We have perused with much curiosity Judge Cooper’s letter to Counsellor Sampson, of New York, upon the subject of a condensation or codification of our Common LawA. It is true, that the experiment has been made in Louisiana, but we are not aware that it has been attempted in England or New York. We have seen nothing, either in the proceedings of the British Parliament, or of the Legislature of New York, which justifies the supposition. At all events, it would be prudent in the State of South Carolina to await the issue of the experiment in other States, before it ventured itself upon so important and extensive an innovationB.In our humble opinion, the scheme of simplifying, or reducing to certain fixed principles the whole system of common law by legislative enactment, is not only extremely difficult, but, even, if it was perfectly feasible, would be useless and unavailing.The Code Napoleon, itself, the great model of all these schemesC, is already beginning to be superseded and lost sight of, in the multiplicity of judicial decisions which have arisen under it. In the course of twenty or thirty years more its authority will probably be entirely lots, and the principles of law be looked for only in the decisions of the courtsD. A similar result would inevitably follow the simplification of the common law in South Carolina. If we suppose the digest enacted, there would be nothing certain in any one principle laid down until its true meaning had been explained by the Court of Appeals…
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