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So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.
For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same.
There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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.
That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were rather gracious for their propriety than strange for their novelty, and like to serve both for occasions to report and means to remember his argument. Certain sentences of his , somewhat obscure, and as it were presuming upon their capacities will, I fear, make some of them rather admire than commend him. In sum, all is as well as words can make it, and if it please Her Majesty to add deeds, the Bacon may be too hard for the Cook.
None shall take advantage of his own wrong.
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
Everyone thirsteth after gaine.
Precaution is better than a cure.
The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.
No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie of knowledge; he must be both speculative & active, for the science of the laws, I assure you, must joyne hands with experience.
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
For a man's house is his castle.
The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
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.
For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].
The house of every one is to him as his castle.
It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice
Common law is common right.
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.
Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.
A corporation has no soul.
