Common law is common right.
Reason is the life of the law.
A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].
The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.