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No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.

— William Blackstone

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It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

Nothing therefore is to be more avoided, in a free constitution, than uniting the provinces of a judge and a minister of state.

Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

What they do, no authority upon earth can undo.

Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

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