In All Tyrannical Governments The Supreme Magistracy,

Herein Indeed Consists The Excellence Of The English Government, That All Parts Of It Form A Mutual Check Upon Each Other.

If [the Legislature] Will Positively Enact A Thing To Be Done, The Judges Are Not At Liberty To Reject It, For That Were To Set The Judicial Power Above That Of The Legislature, Which Would Be Subversive Of All Government.

Law, In Its Most General And Comprehensive Sense, Signifies A Rule Of Action; And Is Applied Indiscriminately To All Kinds Of Action, Whether Animate, Or Inanimate, Rational Or Irrational. Thus We Say, The Laws Of Motion, Of Gravitation, Of Optics, Or Mechanics, As Well As The Laws Of Nature And Of Nations. And It Is That Rule Of Action, Which Is Prescribed By Some Superior, And Which The Inferior Is Bound To Obey.

No Outward Doors Of A Man's House Can In General Be Broken Open To Execute Any Civil Process; Though In Criminal Cases The Public Safety Supersedes The Private.

By Marriage The Husband And Wife Are One Person In Law, That Is, The Very Being Or Legal Existence Of The Woman Is Suspended During Marriage.