The Common Lawes Of The

There Is No Jewel In The World Comparable To Learning; No Learning So Excellent Both For Prince And Subject, As Knowledge Of Laws; And No Knowledge Of Any Laws So Necessary For All Estates And For All Causes, Concerning Goods, Lands Or Life, As The Common Laws Of England.

It Is A Fiction, A Shade, A Nonentity, But A Reality For Legal Purposes. A Corporation Aggregate Is Only In Abstracto—it Is Invisible, Immortal, And Rests Only In Intendment And Consideration Of The Law.

A Thing Which Is Not In Esse But In Apparent Expectancy Is Regarded In Law.

Reason Is The Life Of The Law.

There Be Three Kinds Of Unhappie Men. 1. Qui Scit & Non Docet, Hee That Hath Knowledge And Teacheth Not. 2. Qui Docet & Non Vivit, He That Teacheth, And Liveth Not Thereafter. 3. Qui Nescit, & Non Interrogat, He That Knoweth Not, And Doth Not Enquire To Understand.