194 LAW AND POLITICS. 



In 1784, government made a sort of compulsory 

 purchase of this privilege from the Culloden family, 

 after they had enjoyed it a complete century. The 

 sum paid was 21,500. 



Insurrections. 



In all popular and universal insurrections, " com- 

 munis error facit jus ; et consuetudo peccandi minuit 

 et crimen et pcenam." 



Might. 



Might gives right, and all things are the property 

 of the valiant. " In armis jus ferre, et omnium for- 

 tium virorum esse." (Livy.) 



Prosperous villainy is called virtue. 



Robbery on a large Scale. 



Rome sustained herself, and lived upon, " magna 

 et sanguineolenta latrocinia." 



National Allegiance. 



In the civil law " Partus sequitur ventrem ;" but the 

 national character is determined by the father ac- 

 cording to the English law. " Lege Angliae nunquam 

 matris sed semper patris conditionem imitari partum 

 judicat." 



Usurpers. 



Never kingdom badly obtained was well adminis- 

 tered. " Nee quisquam imperium malis artibus quae- 

 situm bene administravit." (Tacitus.) 



Slaoes. 



Geraldus Cambrensia writes, that so many villeins 

 were in his time exported to Ireland, that the slave- 

 market there was quite glutted. 



Another author declares, that from the reign of 

 King William to King John, there was scarcely a 



