Mankind Will Not Be Reasoned Out Of

There Is Nothing Which So Generally Strikes The Imagination And Engages The Affections Of Mankind, As The Right Of Property.

Gaming Is A Kind Of Tacit Confession That The Company Engaged Therein Do In General Exceed The Bounds Of Their Respective Fortunes, And Therefore They Cast Lots To Determine Upon Whom The Ruin Shall At Present Fall, That The Rest May Be Saved A Little Longer.

The Doctrines Thus Delivered We Call The Revealed Or Divine Law, And They Are To Be Found Only In The Holy Scriptures.. Are Found Upon Comparison To Be Really Part Of The Original Law Of Nature. Upon These Two Foundations, The Law Of Nature And The Law Of Revelation, Depend All Human Laws; That Is To Say, No Human Laws Should Be Suffered To Contradict These.

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.

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.