The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
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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.William Blackstone
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Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
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Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
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No laws are binding on the human subject which assault the body or violate the conscience.
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