Treatise · Legal writingThe king, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong: he can never mean to do an improper thing: in him is no folly or weakness.William BlackstoneCommentaries on the Laws of England · 1765★ 5.3
Treatise · Legal writingMan was formed for society.William BlackstoneCommentaries on the Laws of England · 1765★ 3.8
Treatise · Legal writingWhence it is that in our law the goodness of a custom depends upon its having been used time out of mind; or, in the solemnity of our legal phrase, time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.William BlackstoneCommentaries on the Laws of England · 1765★ 3.6
Treatise · Legal writingAll presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously; for the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.William BlackstoneCommentaries on the Laws of England · 1769★ 3.6
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