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Quotes from Dissenting in Millar v Taylor — Joseph Yates

1722–1770 England

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Nothing but what has visible substance, is capable of actual possession.

Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)

The law is too tenacious of private peace, to suffer litigations to be negotiable.

Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)

Great attention and respect is undoubtedly due to the decisions of a Lord Chancellor: but they are not conclusive upon a Court of common law.

Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)

No tort is assignable, in law or equity. It is not within any species of action at common law.

Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)

I wish as sincerely as any man, that learned men may have all the encouragements, and all the advantages that are consistent with the general right and good of mankind.

Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)

Every reward has its proper bounds.

Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)

Improvement in learning was no part of the thoughts or attention of our ancestors.

Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)

The invention of an author is a species of property unknown to the common law of England. Its usages are immemorial; and the views of it tend to the benefit and advantage of the public with respect to the necessaries of life, and not to the improvement and graces of mind.

Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)

Ideas are free. But while the author confines them to his study, they are like birds in a cage, which none but he can have a right to let fly : for till he thinks proper to emancipate them, they are under his own dominion.

Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)

If the custom be general, it is the law of the realm: if local only, it is lex loci, the law of the place. Now, all laws are general, as far as the law extends; and all customs of England are of course, immemorial.1 No usage, therefore, can be part of that law, or have the force of a custom, that is not immemorial.

Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)

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