Abstract
We read in the Declaration of Independence of the United States, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men" . . . . All governments, indeed, which have been constituted upon the principles laid down in the great Magna Charta, have, as one of their foremost duties, the preservation of the lives and health of the people. The Common Law of England sums up the rights of individuals under three principal articles; namely: "the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty, and the right of private property;" and defines the right of personai security to consist, "in a person's legal right and uninterrupted enjoyment of his life, his limbs, his health,
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