It was not thought fit nor convenient, to publish either those, or any of the Statutes enacted in those days in the vulgar tongue, lest the unlearned by bare reading without right understanding might sucke out errors, and trusting to their owne conceit might endamage themselves, and sometimes fall into destruction.
(1) For example, in 1813, Thomas Jefferson wrote, in regard to the retroactive application of a congressional patent law, that "Every man should be protected in his lawful acts, and be certain that no ex post facto law shall punish or endamage him for them...
Beyond this, it endamages the ecological balance and reduces the prospects of the long term exploitation of the favourable conditions of the particular areas.