Magna Charta Is Such A Fellow, That

The Agreement Of The Parties Cannot Make That Good Which The Law Maketh Void.

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.

In The Meane Time Know This, That The Learning Of Warranties Is One Of The Most Curious And Cunning Learnings Of The Law, And Of Great Use And Consequence.

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.

The Law Doth Never Enforce A Man To Doe A Vaine Thing.