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

A corporation has no soul.

So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.

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