- Libertinum ingratum leges civiles in pristinam servitutem redigunt; sed leges Angliae semel manumissum semper liberum judicant
- The civil laws reduce an ungrateful freedman to his former servitude, but the laws of England adjudge a person who has been once manumitted or freed to be always free.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.