How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

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Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

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Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

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We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

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The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

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