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Law is the safest helmet.
A corporation has no soul.
Common law is common right.
Reason is the life of the law.
For a man's house is his castle.
Precaution is better than a cure.
The Law ... is perfection of reason.
The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds
The house of every one is to him as his castle.
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.
Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.
The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.
We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
So use your own property as not to injure that of another
So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.
It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice
Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign
Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.
The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.
The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.
Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.
Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.
The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.
A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.
There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.
For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].