"I know but of one Being to whom error may not be imputed."

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“Cock-fighting must be considered a barbarous diversion.”

“As a general rule, I beg that it may be understood, that a case is not to be cut into parts, but that when it is known what the question in issue is, it must be met at once.”

“It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.”

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“Every one must be supposed to be cognizant of a public law.”

“It has been sometimes said, communis error facit jus; but I say communis opinio is evidence of what the law is; not where it is an opinion merely floating and theoretical floating in the minds of persons but where it has been made the ground-work and substratum of practice.”

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