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A man's house is his castle — et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium.
Institutes of the Laws of England (1628)
Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
It is better to endure every evil than to consent to evil.
Institutes of the Laws of England (1628)
Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.
Twyne's Case (1602)
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason... The law, which is perfection of reason.
Institutes of the Laws of England (1628)
Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.
The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
Thought the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
Institutes of the Laws of England (1628)
He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.
Institutes of the Laws of England (1628)
They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.
Case of Sutton's Hospital (1612)
Generally speaking, no young tree is allowed to stand on copyhold land.
None shall take advantage of his own wrong.
Dumpor's Case (1603)
The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
Institutes of the Laws of England (1628)
The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
Institutes of the Laws of England (1628)
Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
Institutes of the Laws of England (1628)
For a man's house is his castle, Et domut sua cuique tutissimum refugium.
It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto—it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.
Case of Sutton's Hospital (1612)
Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,
Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
When poor England stood alone, and had not the access of another kingdom, and yet had more and as potent enemies as now it hath, and yet the King of England prevailed.