A multitude of men are made “one” person, when they are by one man or one person represented; so that it be done with the consent of every one of that multitude in particular. For it is the “unity” of the representer, not the “unity” of the represented, that maketh the person “one.” And it is the representer that beareth the person, and but one person: and “unity” cannot otherwise be understood in multitude.

And because the multitude naturally is not “one,” but “many,” they cannot be understood for one; but many authors, of everything their representative saith, or doth in their name; every man giving their common representer authority from himself in particular, and owning all the actions the representer doth, in case they give him authority without stint: otherwise, when they limit him in what and how far he shall represent them, none of them owneth more than they gave him commission to act.