Sec. 206. Secondly, But this privilege, belonging only to
the king's person, hinders not, but they may be questioned,
opposed, and resisted, who use unjust force, though they pretend
a commission from him, which the law authorizes not; as is plain
in the case of him that has the king's writ to arrest a man,
which is a full commission from the king; and yet he that has it
cannot break open a man's house to do it, nor execute this
command of the king upon certain days, nor in certain places,
though this commission have no such exception in it; but they are
the limitations of the law, which if any one transgress, the
king's commission excuses him not: for the king's authority being
given him only by the law, he cannot impower any one to act
against the law, or justify him, by his commission, in so doing;
the commission, or command of any magistrate, where he has no
authority, being as void and insignificant, as that of any
private man; the difference between the one and the other, being
that the magistrate has some authority so far, and to such ends,
and the private man has none at all: for it is not the
commission, but the authority, that gives the right of acting;
and against the laws there can be no authority. But,
notwithstanding such resistance, the king's person and authority
are still both secured, and so no danger to governor or
government,
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