- on peut bien receivoir loy d'autruy, mais il est impossible par nature de se donner loy
- One may well receive laws from another, but it is impossible in the nature of things for one to make laws for himself. Kawananakoa v Polyblank, 205 US 349, 353, 51 L Ed 834, 836, 27 S Ct 526.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.