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The Board issued its first report on 18 August 1853. The report consisted mainly of papers by the Sub-Commissioners, including practical suggestions from Coode, a classification of existing statutes and an expurgatory list of defunct statutes from
Chisholm Anstey and commentary on the law of distress
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was published, providing for the first time the authoritative collection of acts. In 1816, both Houses of
Parliament, passed resolutions that an eminent lawyer with 20 clerks be commissioned to make a digest of the statues, which was declared "very expedient to be done." However, this was never done.
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Chisholm Anstey argued for a general expurgatory Bill as preliminary work to consolidation, submitting drafts of Bills for consolidating enactments relating to the
National Debt, the Consolidated Fund and certain public officers, and pensions, as well as a Bill for the interpretation of enactments.
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Commissioners found that, out of 16,442 public statutes passed since Magna Carta, only about 3,900 were still in force. After excluding Scotland-only, Ireland-only, and colonial statutes, less than 2,500 public
431:"So far from its being any part of the duty of the legislature to pass a declaratory statute as to expired and defunct Acts, such a measure would at best be nugatory, and perhaps mischievous. Besides, such a statute, with its thousands of entries, would be impossible to pass"
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Brickdale submitted drafts of Bills concerning wills and apportionment and a paper containing considerations on the propriety of extending the principles of the
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was established in 1833 and issued its final report in 1845, proposing a draft bill digesting criminal law and procedure. However, the ambition for such a comprehensive legal was dissipating.
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as part of an 1869 resolution criticising the expensive process of legal revision that had taken place over 36 years, costing the country over £80,000 without yielding substantial results.
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