“Et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium”, Coke, Institutes, Ch.73

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My Lords and Gentlemen, There is much trouble in the Court which I must first note here before commencing my Treatise. I have the highest regard for the military prowess of the Prince, George Augustus1Subsequently George II. Indeed, the Duke of Marlborough himself has written to me that at Oudenade he “distinguished himself extremely, charging at […]

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ἀνάγκη γάρ, ἐὰν ὑμεῖς καταψηφίσησθε, καὶ μὴ ὄντα φονέα μηδ᾽ ἔνοχον τῷ ἔργῳχρήσασθαι τῇ δίκῃ, καὶ νόμῳ εἴργεσθαι πόλεως, ἱερῶν, ἀγώνων, θυσιῶν, ἅπερμέγιστα καὶ παλαιότατα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις. Antiphon, On the Choreutes, 6.4

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My Lords and Gentlemen1The title to this essay is to be translated “Once you condemn him, a defendant must perforce accept your verdict, even if he was not the murderer or concerned in the crime. The law banishes him from his city, its temples, its games, and its sacrifices, the greatest and the most ancient of […]

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