Look, Willem, he admits he doesn’t know the law and at the same time claims he’s innocent.
Custom is just as real as law and can be just as dangerous.
True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.
The trial has to be kept going round and round in the little circle to which it is restricted. The consequence of that is a certain inconvenience for the accused, though it isn’t as bad as you might imagine.