Possession is nine points of the law.

-Anonymous
Proverb, quoted in T Draxe Adages (1616) no.163.

The deceased Gentlemanwas, weare informed, a native of Ashbourn, Derbyshire, at which place he was born in theYear of Grace, 217, and was consequently in the 1643rd year of his age. For some months the patriotic Old Man had been suffering from injuries sustained in his native town, so far back as Shrovetide in last year; he was at once removed (byappeal) to London, where he lingered in suspense till the law of death put its icy hand upon him, and claimed as another trophy to magisterial interference one who had long lived in the hearts of the people.

-Anonymous
  'Death of the Right Honourable Game Football', as published in a court circular. There had been recent attempts in the courts to ban the riotous custom of 'Shrovetide football' pursued at  Ashbourne, Derbyshire, and other villages.

Law is a bottomless pit.

-Arbuthnot,John
  The History of  John Bull, title of pamphlet.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.4,'Of Revenge'.

   Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and whenthehill stoodstill hewasneverawhit abashed, but said,'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.12,'Of Boldness'.

Souviens-toi que leTemps est un joueur avide Qui gagne sans tricher, a'   tout coup! c'est la loi. Remember! Time, that tireless gambler, wins on every turn of the wheel: that is the law.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Les Fleurs du mal,'L'Horloge' (translated by Richard Howard,1982).

Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

-Bentham,Jeremy
  An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.

Sowill Igo in untothe king, which isnot according tothe law: and if I perish, I perish.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Esther 4:16.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.But his delight is in the law of the L; and in his law doth he meditate dayand night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in hisseason; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodlyare not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms1:1^4.

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms119:165.

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. 100

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 29:18.

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: Iamnotcometo destroy, buttofulfil.For verily I say unto you,Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 5:17^18.

Jesus said unto him,Thou shalt love the Lord Thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it,Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 22:37^40.

For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans 2:14.

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans 4:15.

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans13:7^8.

Love workethno ill tohisneighbour: therefore love isthe fulfilling of the law.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans13:10.

Labour is the Party of law and order in Britain todayötough on crime and tough on the causes of crime.

-Blair,Tony (Anthony Charles Lynton)
  Speech as Shadow Home Secretary, Labour Party Conference, Sep.

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.

-Blake,William
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,'Proverbs of Hell'.

People crushed by law have no hope but from power. If laws are theirenemies, they will be enemiesto laws; and those, who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous, more or less.

-Burke, Edmund
  Letter to Charles  James Fox, 8 Oct.