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Person·William Blackstone✕clear

Treatise · Legal writing

In all tyrannical governments, the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.

William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England · 1769

★ 1.1

Treatise · Legal writing

The offense of riding or going armed, with dangerous or unusual weapons, is a crime against the public peace, by terrifying the good people of the land.

William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England · 1769

★ 1.9

Treatise · Legal writing

That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England · 1765

★ 2.0

Treatise · Legal writing

Whence 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 Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England · 1765

★ 3.6

Treatise · Legal writing

All 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 Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England · 1769

★ 3.6

Treatise · Legal writing

Man was formed for society.

William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England · 1765

★ 3.8

Treatise · Legal writing

The 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 Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England · 1765

★ 5.3

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