Sir Matthew Hale
Jurist, 1609-1676
Cited as Sir M. Hale. — 81 quotations
Aggress
Their military aggresses on others.
Alligate
Instincts alligated to their nature.
Antiquate
Christianity might reasonably introduce new laws, and antiquate or abrogate old one.
Appendix
Normandy became an appendix to England.
Arefaction
The arefaction of the earth.
Coincidence
The very concurrence and coincidence of so many evidences . . . carries a great weight.
Commend
Among the objects of knowledge, two especially commend themselves to our contemplation.
Common
Though life and sense be common to men and brutes.
Computable
Not easily computable by arithmetic.
Conclude
If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
Concludent
Arguments highly consequential and concludent to my purpose.
Concourse
The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter.
Concrete
There are in our inferior world divers bodies that are concreted out of others.
Congenite
Many conclusions, of moral and intellectual truths, seem . . . to be congenite with us.
Connaturality
A congruity and connaturality between them.
Consequential
These kind of arguments . . . are highly consequential and concludent to my purpose.
Conterminous
This conformed so many of them as were conterminous to the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws.
Conventional
Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service.
Counterpart
In same things the laws of Normandy agreed with the laws of England, so that they seem to be, as it were, copies or counterparts one of another.
Defloration
The laws of Normandy are, in a great measure, the defloration of the English laws.
Deletion
A total deletion of every person of the opposing party.
Derivation
As touching traditional communication, . . . I do not doubt but many of those truths have had the help of that derivation.
Derogate
By several contrary customs, . . . many of the civil and canon laws are controlled and derogated.
Dissipation
The famous dissipation of mankind.
Draught
Upon the draught of a pond, not one fish was left.
Estimative
We find in animals an estimative or judicial faculty.
Exody
The time of the Jewish exody.
Extant
Writings that were extant at that time.
Fair
The northern people large and fair-complexioned.
Filiation
The relation of paternity and filiation.
Heritable
This son shall be legitimate and heritable.
Imperate
Those imperate acts, wherein we see the empire of the soul.
Imperceptible
Their . . . subtilty and imperceptibleness.
Improvable
Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties.
Inchoation
The setting on foot some of those arts, in those parts, would be looked on as the first inchoation of them.
Increase
Fishes are more numerous or increasing than beasts or birds, as appears by their numerous spawn.
Inductive
They may be . . . inductive of credibility.
Infertility
The infertility or noxiousness of the soil.
Ingenerate
Those noble habits are ingenerated in the soul.
Insensible
If it make the indictment be insensible or uncertain, it shall be quashed.
Instance
These seem as if, in the time of Edward I., they were drawn up into the form of a law, in the first instance.
Integrity
Language continued long in its purity and integrity.
Intemperateness
By unseasonable weather, by intemperateness of the air or meteors.
Intend
By this the lungs are intended or remitted.
Intercede
He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived.
Interjacence
England and Scotland is divided only by the interjacency of the Tweed.
Interlard
The English laws . . . [were] mingled and interlarded with many particular laws of their own.
Interpolate
Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . . . partly interpolated and interrupted.
Legislature
Without the concurrent consent of all three parts of the legislature, no law is, or can be, made.
Level
After draining of the level in Northamptonshire.
Manual
This manual of laws, styled the Confessor's Laws.
Meridian
All other knowledge merely serves the concerns of this life, and is fitted to the meridian thereof.
Mold
He forgeth and moldeth metals.
Moral
The wiser and more moral part of mankind.
Obediential
An obediental subjection to the Lord of Nature.
Opinion
Opinion is when the assent of the understanding is so far gained by evidence of probability, that it rather inclines to one persuasion than to another, yet not without a mixture of incertainty or doubting.
Oust
Multiplication of actions upon the case were rare, formerly, and thereby wager of law ousted.
Posture
His [man's] noblest posture and station in this world.
Prudence
Prudence is principally in reference to actions to be done, and due means, order, seasons, and method of doing or not doing.
Range
The next range of beings above him are the immaterial intelligences.
Reason
The reason of the motion of the balance in a wheel watch is by the motion of the next wheel.
Recess
In the recess of the jury they are to consider the evidence.
Rector
God is the supreme rector of the world.
Reflex
The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions.
Religion
Those parts of pleading which in ancient times might perhaps be material, but at this time are become only mere styles and forms, are still continued with much religion.
Residence
The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
Resort
The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors.
Roll
The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the petitions, answers, and transactions in Parliament, are extant.
Scrutiny
They that have designed exactness and deep scrutiny have taken some one part of nature.
Skeleton
The great skeleton of the world.
Sow
The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, . . . and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.
Store
Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish.
Subduce
If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduce ten.
Subjection
The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels.
Succeed
If the father left only daughters, they equally succeeded to him in copartnership.
Temperament
The common law . . . has reduced the kingdom to its just state and temperament.
Topical
Evidences of fact can be no more than topical and probable.
Traduce
From these only the race of perfect animals were propagated and traduced over the earth.
Traduction
Traditional communication and traduction of truths.
Ventricle
Whether I will or not, while I live, my heart beats, and my ventricle digests what is in it.
Vicarious
The soul in the body is but a subordinate efficient, and vicarious . . . in the hands of the Almighty.