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The nature of every Law must be judged of by the end for which it was…

Quote byRichard Hooker · 1554–1600

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594), Book III. Ch. x.

English (original)

The nature of every Law must be judged of by the end for which it was made, and by the aptness of things therein prescribed unto the same end.

— Richard Hooker

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