Common law is common right.

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

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign

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.

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.

We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.