To conclude this point: Judicium est legibus, non exemplis (4 Rep. 33), and Judicium est jurisdictum and Executio est executio juris secundum judicium (3 Inst. 211). Buckingham may also refer to Gloster’s cruelty in making the law an instrument of oppression or extortion and the liability thereby incurred, for Executio juris non habet injuriam (2 Inst. 481; 1 Inst. 289a). The law in its executive capacity will not work a wrong. If an individual, under colour of law, does an illegal act, or if he abuses the process of the Court to make it an instrument of oppression or extortion, this is a fraud upon the law, by the commission of which liability will be incurred. _Claud._ Fellow, why dost thou show me thus to the world? Bear me to prison, where I am committed. _Prov._ I do it not _in evil disposition_, But from Lord Angelo by special charge. _Measure for Measure_, Act i. Scene 3. Qui jussu judicis aliquod fecerit non videtur dolo malo fecisse quia parere necesse est (10 Rep. 70, 76). Where a man does anything by command of a judge, the law will not consider that he acted from any wrongful motive, because it was necessary for him to comply with the orders of the judge. In 26 Ed. III. vii. 70, it is taken for a maxim, that the thing which an officer doth by warrant or command of a Court, cannot be said to be against the peace, and (Doct. and Stud. 150) the king’s officers are bound to execute the king’s writs at their peril (10 Rep. 70). When a Court has jurisdiction of a cause, and proceeds inverso ordine or erroneously, no action lies against the party who sues, or the officer or minister of the Court who executes the precept or process of the Court. But when the Court has no jurisdiction of the cause, then the whole proceeding is coram non judice, and actions will lie against them without any regard of the precept or process, for it is not necessary to obey him who is not a judge of the cause, no more than it is to obey a mere stranger, for the rule is, Judicium a non suo judice datum nullius est momenti (10 Rep. 76). _Lady Macbeth._ What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? _Macbeth_, Act v. Scene 1. _Lear._ No, they cannot touch me for coining; I am the king himself. _Goneril._ Say if I do; the laws are mine, not thine; Who shall arraign me for it? _Lear_, Act v. Scene 2. Lady Macbeth, Lear, and Goneril seem to refer to the ancient and fundamental principle of the English constitution, that the king can do no wrong. Rex non potest peccare (2 Roll. R. 304; Jenk. Cent. 9, 308). _Duke._ He dies for Claudio’s death.