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A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.
King v. Harris (1797)
A plaintiff who comes into a Court of justice must show that he is in a condition to maintain his action.
Morton v. Lamb (1797)
I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.
King v. Harris (1797)
Justice requires that a party should be duly summoned and fully heard before he is condemned.
King v. Stone (1800)
It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.
Case of John Lambert and others (1793)
Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.
Clayton v. Adams (1796)
What a man does in his closet ought not to affect the rights of third persons.
Outram v. Morewood (1793)
A man may publish anything which twelve of his countrymen think not blamable.
Cuthell's Case (1799)
If an infant commit an assault, or utter slander, God forbid that he should not be answerable for it in a Court of justice.
Jennings v. Rundall (1799)
The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.
Turtle v. Hartwell (1795)
If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.
Williams' Case (1797)
What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.
Godfrey v. Hudson (1788)
Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.
Wright v. Barnard (1797)
All laws stand on the best and broadest basis which go to enforce moral and social duties.
Pasley v. Freeman (1789)
That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.
King v. Ginever (1796)
A Court of equity can mould interests differently from a Court of law; and can give relief in cases where a Court of law cannot.
Clayton v. Adams (1796)
In the hurry of business, the most able Judges are liable to err.
Cotton v. Thurland (1793)
The popish religion is now unknown to the law of this country.
Du Barre v. Livette (1791)
The use of cases is to establish principles; if the cases decide different from the principles, I must follow the principles, not the decisions.
Duke of Leeds v. New Radnor (1788)
We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.
King v. Waddington (1800)