I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.


A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett... (ed. 1834)


I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning...

I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning...

I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning...

I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning...