Punishments Of Unreasonable Severity, Especially Where Indiscriminately

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.

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

The Law, Which Restrains A Man From Doing Mischief To His Fellow Citizens, Though It Diminishes The Natural, Increases The Civil Liberty Of Mankind.

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.

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.