There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.

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

We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.

Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.

Common law is common right.

The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale