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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions. - [Certainty] Common law is common right. - as quoted by William Penn at his trial [Law] Everyone thirsteth after gaine. - [Want] Hope is a waking dream. - probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers") [Proverbs] It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion. - [Judges] Precaution is better than cure. [Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.] - [Prudence] So use your own property as not to injure that of another. - [Proverbs] Success in crime always invites to worse deeds. - [Proverbs] The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also. - [Proverbs] The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. - [Home] They cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. - [Corporations] Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale. - [Proverbs] Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished. - [Associates] Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. - [Bribery] 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. - [Antiquity] Where there are many counsellors there is safety. - [Proverbs] You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it. - [Proverbs] Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign. - Debate in the Commons [Law] Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law which is perfection of reason. - First Institute [Law] The gladsome light of jurisprudence. - First Institute [Law] Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn. - Fourth Institute (p. 109) [Justice] It is not easy to make a simile go on all-fours. [Lat., Nullum simile quatuor pedibus currit.] - Institutes [Speech] For a man's house is his castle. - Institutes (pt. III, Against Going, or Riding Armed, p. 162) [Home] Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend ion prayer, the rest on nature fix. [Lat., Sex horas somno, totidem des legibus aequis Quatuor orabis, des epulisque duas; Quod superest ultro sacris largire Camoenis.] - introduced by Institutes of the Laws of England (bk. II, ch. I, section 85) [Time] They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. - Reports (vol. V, Case of Sutton's Hospital) [Business] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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