"There is no providence or wisdom of man, nor of any council of men that can foresee and provide for all events and va…"

"We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we l…"

"The laws alone are they that always speak with all persons, high or low, in one and the same impartial voice. The law…"

"Pleading is an exact setting forth of the truth."

"And the law says, better is a mischief than an inconvenience. By a mischief is meant, when one man or some few men su…"

"It is the more fit for the Supreme Court to give some certain rule in it that may regulate and guide the judgment of …"

"A people whom Providence hath cast together into one island or country are in effect one great body politic, consisti…"

"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"

"England, our native country, one of the most renowned monarchies in the world, against which the Pope beareth a speci…"

"The most high and absolute power of the realm of England consisteth in the parliament: for as in war where the king h…"