And therefore where there be divers Provinces, within the Dominion of a Common-wealth, and in those Provinces diversity of Lawes, which commonly are called the Customes of each severall Province, we are not to understand that such Customes have their Force, onely from Length of Time; but that they were antiently Lawes written, or otherwise made known, for the Constitutions, and Statutes of their Soveraigns; and are now Lawes, not by vertue of the Praescription of time, but by the Constitutions of their present Soveraigns.
Beraz, Estatu baten manupeko lurraldeetan probintzia ezberdinak eta probintziotan lege ezberdinak direnean, probintzia bakoitzaren ohiturak deitzen zaienak eskuarki, ez dugu pentsatu behar ohitura horiei denbora luzez iraute soiletik datorkiela indarra, baizik antzina batean lege idatziak izatetik edo beste eraren batez aldarrikatuak izatetik bertako subiranoen konstituzio edo estatututzat; eta orain lege badira, ez da denborak berretsi dituelako, baizik gaur egun dituzten subiranoen konstituzioek berretsi dituztelako.