Law is a kind of deity to them, and they regard it with great reverence and awe.

These laws of life that work for our health and wealth loom, however, into mystic and sacred forms, as of the laws heavenly and eternal, whose "seat is the bosom of God.

The Law of the Land is his Gospel, and all his Cases of Conscience are determined by his Attorney.

It is true neither that the moral law is a mere "ought" nor that the law of nature is a mere "being," a universally followed "must."

On the other hand, the law of love, however divine, was but a precept.

In religion these laws are its dogmas and mysteries; philosophically speaking, the laws of things are the essentials of their nature, their specific relations.

Further, the laws of the Mosaic system were so many sentinels on every side, to warn off foreign practices.

Dad law is crezzie!

Often this class of laws is enforced upon offenders who believe the law is an unwarrantable interference with their rights, and thus causes convictions where no moral turpitude is felt.

" "I would simply ask you to observe that the law you so much approve is not a preventive of amalgamation.

The forest-laws, particularly, were a great source of oppression.

Say, then, that the laws of the South are a calumny, that the official acts of the South are a calumny; for I affirm that the simple reading of these acts and these laws, a glance at the advertisements of a Southern journal, saddens the heart more, and wounds the conscience deeper, than the most poignant pages of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Law is a rule prescribed.

For Economy, although a primal law, is not the only l

The law of temperance, therefore, is self-control.

This law is droll business, Miles; if money is paid, they give you satisfaction, just as gentlemen call on each other, you know, when a little cross.

Law is to things which to free choice relate; Love is not in our choice, but in our fate; Laws are but positive; love's power, we see, Is Nature's sanction, and her first decree.

Lawyers not only expected to make their living by their proper calling, but also to rise to the first places in the commonwealths, for in these new communities, as in the older States, the law was then the most honored of the professions, and that which most surely led to high social and political standing.

The evidence has convicted you of rising in mutiny against the master of the vessel, for that alone, the law is DEATH!of murder and robbery on the high seas, for that crime, the law adjudges DEATHof destroying the vessel and embezzling the cargo, even for scuttling and burning the vessel alone the law is DEATH; yet of all these the evidence has convicted you, and it only remains now for the Court to pass the sentence of the law.

The Law of Equity is the final law of trade.

"When ... a law is in its nature a contract ... a repeal of the law cannot devest" rights which have vested under it.

Law is properly the public definition of freedom and the affirmation of its sacredness and inviolability as so defined; and only in the presence of it, either express or implicit, does man become free.

The first and paramount law is the assertion of one's own independent existence.

The law may be a slight step in advance, and so perhaps educate public opinion to its level; but if it goes beyond that step, after the first flurry of interest in the law is past, it remains a dead letter on the statute booksworse than useless, because cultivating that dangerous disrespect for all law, which we have seen growing upon us as a people.

The idea was favourably received, and Mark was unanimously chosen governor for life, the law being the rule of right, with such special enactments as might, from time to time, issue from a council of three, who were also elected for life.