Herein Indeed Consists The Excellence Of The

Those Rights, Then, Which God And Nature Have Established, And Are Therefore Called Natural Rights, Such As Life And Liberty, Need Not The Aid Of Human Laws To Be More Effectually Invested In Every Man Than They Are; Neither Do They Receive Any Additional Strength When Declared By The Municipal Laws To Be Inviolate. On The Contrary, No Human Legislature Has Power To Abridge Or Destroy Them, Unless The Owner Shall Himself Commit Some Act That Amounts To A Forfeiture.

The Most Universal And Effectual Way Of Discovering The True Meaning Of Law, When The Words Are Dubious, Is By Considering The Reason And Spirit Of It; Or The Cause Which Moved The Legislator To Enact It. For When This Reason Ceased, The Law Itself Ought Likewise To Cease With It.

The Public Good Is In Nothing More Essentially Interested, Than In The Protection Of Every Individual's Private Rights.

Time Whereof The Memory Of Man Runneth Not To The Contrary.

Of Crimes Injurious To The Persons Of Private Subjects, The Most Principal And Important Is The Offense Of Taking Away That Life, Which Is The Immediate Gift Of The Great Creator; And Which Therefore No Man Can Be Entitled To Deprive Himself Or Another Of, But In Some Manner Either Expressly Commanded In, Or Evidently Deducible From, Those Laws Which The Creator Has Given Us; The Divine Laws, I Mean, Of Either Nature Or Revelation.