The Law Of The Realm Cannot Be

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.

Reason Is The Life Of The Law; Nay, The Common Law Itself Is Nothing Else But Reasonthe Law, Which Is Perfection Of Reason.

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.

So As Grave And Learned Men May Doubt, Without Any Imputation To Them; For The Most Learned Doubteth Most, And The More Ignorant For The Most Part Are The More Bold And Peremptory.

One Threatens The Innocent Who Spares The Guilty.