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Of the Absolute Rights of IndividualsNOTES
   1. 11 Phillip. 12.
   2. L. 1. c. 3.
   3. Facultas ejus, quod cuique facere libet, nisi quid jure prohibetur. [Its essence is the power of doing whatsoever we please, unless where authority or law forbids.] Inst. 1.3.1.
   4. 3 Edw IV. c. 5.
   5. 30 Car, II. st.1.c.3.
   6. on Gov, p.2., 57.
   7. Salk. 666.
   8. Inst. proem.
   9. 25 Edw. I.
   10. 2 Inst. proem.
   11. 1W. and M. st.2. c.2.
   12. 12 & 13 W. III. c.2.
   13. Plowd. 55.
   14. Si aliquis mulierem pregnantem percusserit, vel ei venenum dederit, per quod fecerit abortivam; si puerperium jam formatum fuerit, et maxime si fuerit animatum, facit homicidium. [If any one strike a woman when pregnant, or administer poison to her, by which abortion shall ensue, if the child should be already formed, and particularly if it be alive, that person is guilty of manslaughter.] Bracton. l.3. c.21.
   15. 3 Inst. 90
   16. Stat. 12 Car II. c.24
   17. Stat. 10 & 11 W. III. c. 16
   18. Qui in utero sunt, in jure civili intelliguntur in rerum natura esse, cum de eorum commodo agatur. [Those who are in the womb, are considered by the civil law to be in the nature of things, as they are capable of being benefited] Ff. 1. 5. 26.
   19. 2 Inst. 483
   20. L. 2. c. 5.
   21. 2 Inst. 483
   22. Ff. 48. 21. 1.
   23. l. 11. t.27
   24. Co. Litt. 133.
   25. This was also a rule in the feudal law, l.2. t.21. desiit esse miles seculi, qui factus est miles Christi; nec beneficium pertinet ad eum qui non debet gerere officium [he who becomes a soldier of Christ has ceased to be a soldier of the world, nor is he entitled to any reward who acknowledges no duty].
   26. Litt. 200.
   27. Co. Litt. 133 b.
   28. 2 Rep. 48 Co. Litt. 132
   29. Co. Litt. 132.
   30. Salk. 162.
   31. c. 29.
   32. 2 Inst. 48
   33. c.29.
   34. 5 Edw. III. c.9. 25 Edw. III. st. 5. c.4. and 28 Edw. III. 4.3.
   35. 2 Inst. 589.
   36. 2 Inst. 482.
   37. 2 Inst. 52, 53.
   38. F. N. B. 85.
   39. cap. 29.
   40. 2 Inst. 47.
   41. c. 29.
   42. 5 Edw. III. c.9. 25 Edw. III. st. 5. c.4. 28 Edw. III. c.3.
   43. See the historical introduction to the great charter, etc, sub anno 1297; wherein it is shown that this statue de talliagio non concedendo [concerning the not granting talliage], supposed to have been made in 34 Edw. I, is in reality nothing more than a sort of translation into Latin of the confirmatio cartarum, 25 Edw. I, which was originally published in the Norman language.
   44. c. 29.
   45. 2 Inst. 55.
   46. c.29.
   47. Montesq. Sp. L. 12. 26.
   48. Montesq. Sp. L. 11. 5.