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

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

A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.

No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie of knowledge; he must be both speculative & active, for the science of the laws, I assure you, must joyne hands with experience.

It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.

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

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.