And  as  jou  will  be  no  better  for  tlie
nut  if  you  make  use  only  of  the  shell,
so  you  will  receive  no  benefit  by  the
law  if  you  rely  only  upon  the  letter ;
and  as  the  fruit  and  profit  of  the  nut


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LIBERAL   CONSTKUCTION.
It  is  said  in  Plowden,^  for  wliich  there  were  many  instances,
that  "  where  an  act  is  made  to  remedy  any  mischief,  there  in


lies  in  the  kernel,  and  not  ia  the
shell,  so  the  fruit  and  profit  of  the
law  consists  in  the  sense  more  than
ia  the  letter.  And  it  often  happens
that  when  you  know  the  letter  you
know  not  the  sense,  for  sometimes
the  sense  is  more  confined  and  con-
ti'acted  than  the  letter,  and  some-
times it  is  more  large  and  extensive.
