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.
Edward Coke
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
uncertainty repose mother quiet certainty
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls
treason corporations souls
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose
repose home violence injury
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
force reason law
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished
act
Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great
small fault great
I saw nothing but waters wap [lap] and waves wanne [come].
Everyone thirsteth after gaine
The gladsome light of Jurisprudence.
light
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
life
You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
trust man art
Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
sleep nature rest
Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.
thetimes time
man the-public
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