So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

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