No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.

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

Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.

Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for one would not know what one has accepted. The request for the meaning of a religious belief is logically prior to the question of accepting that belief on faith or to the question of whether that belief constitutes knowledge.

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.

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.