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There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.

Everyone thirsteth after gaine.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

A corporation has no soul.

Precaution is better than a cure.

The house of every one is to him as his castle.

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

None shall take advantage of his own wrong.

Precaution is better than cure.

Common law is common right.

Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.

So use your own property as not to injure that of another.

The gladsome light of jurisprudence.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

Law is the safest helmet.

He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice

Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.

The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.

A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

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.

The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

Where there are many counsellors there is safety.

For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same.

Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.

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.