Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty. The liberties of England cannot but subsist so long as this palladium remains sacred and inviolate, not only from all open attacks, ... but also from all secret machinations, which may sap and undermine it.

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found upon comparison to be really part of the original law of nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these.

By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage.

The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.

The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England.