The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
Reason is the life of the law.
We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.
It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice