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Giles Rooke Quotes

1743–1808 England

Sir Giles Rooke (1743–1808) was an English judge.

England
Judges

Also known as: Rooke, Giles

Random Giles Rooke quote

8 quotes

The best way in which a jury can execute their duty is to give their verdict according to the evidence before them.

Trial of Redhead alias Yorke (1795)

In this case the plaintiff does not come into Court with clean hands; he alleges his own turpitude, and is indictable for his fraud.

Farmer v. Russell (1798)

Legal coercion is a course which the law allows.

Cox v. Morgan (1801)

I am bound by my oath to abide by the law, and I cannot suffer anybody to derogate from it.

Redhead alias Yorke's Case (1795)

Those who make the attack ought to be very well prepared to support it.

Almgill v. Pierson (1797)

If it were a doubtful point how the statute should be construed, I must consider myself as bound by the construction it has already received in two Courts in Westminster Hall.

Cox v. Morgan (1801)

Whatever doubts I had, I submit to the authority of the other Judges.

Mitchell v. Cockburne (1794)

The Crown used to call a Parliament annually, but there was not an annual election. These words, annuo parliamento, relate to the time of their meeting, and not their election.

Trial of Redhead alias Yorke (1795)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Giles Rooke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.