How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law. |
We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways. |
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale. |
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. |
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions. |
So use your own property as not to injure that of another. |
You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it. |
Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign. |
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also. |
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. |
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. |
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished. |
Where there are many counsellors there is safety. |
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds. |
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. |
One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty. |