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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Neque enim lex est aequior ulla, Quam necis artifices arte perire sua. Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. Ovid—Ars Amatoria. I. 665. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Byron) Sunt superis sua jura. The gods have their own laws. Ovid—Metamorphoses. IX. 499. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 432 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Where law ends, there tyranny begins. | author = William Pitt | cog = (Earl of Chatham) | work = Case of Wilkes. Speech. | note = Jan. 9, 1770. Last line. | topic = Law | page = 432 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem. You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law. Plautus—MosteHaria. V. 1. 52. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 432 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Non est princeps super leges, sed leges supra principem. The prince is not above the laws, but the laws above the prince. Pliny the Younger—Paneg. Traj. 65. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 432 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Curse on all laws but those which love has made. | author = Pope | work = Eloisa to Abelarfl. L. 74. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 432 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = All, look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the law. | author = Pope | work = Epilogue to Satire. Dialogue L L. 167. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 432 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate. | author = Pope | work = Essay on Man. | place = Ep. III. L. 189. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 432 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Piecemeal they win this acre first then, that, Glean on, and gather up the whole estate. | author = Pope | work = Satires of Dr. Donne. Satire II. L. 91. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 432 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Once (says an Author; where, I need not say) Two Trailers found an Oyster in their way; Both fierce, both hungry ; the dispute grew strong, While Scale in hand Dame Justice pass'd along. Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws. Explain'd the matter, and would win the cause, Dame Justice weighing long the doubtful Right, Takes, open, swallows it, before their sight. The cause of strife remoVd so rarely well, 'fThere take" (says Justice), "take ye each a shell. We thrive at Westminster on Fools like you: 'Twas a fat oyster—live in peace—Adieu." | author = Pope | work = Verbatim from Boileau.  | author =  | work =  | place =  | note =  | topic = Law | page = 432 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = i Let us consider the reasons of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. . Sm John PowELii—Coggs vs. Bernard. 2 Ld. Raym. 911. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Coke)