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The liberty of the press is dear to England; the licentiousness of the press is odious to England: the liberty of it can never be so well protected as by beating down the licentiousness.
Cuthell's Case (1799)
The family consists of those who live under the same roof with the pater familias; those who form (if I may use the expression) his fire-side.
R. v. Inhabitants of Darlington (1792)
He had no right to take the law into his own hands.
Tarleton v. McGawley (1795)
I have often thought since that there is sound sense in what was once said by the late Lord C. J. Eyre, that the sooner a bad precedent was gotten rid of, the better.
King v. Stone (1800)
It is our duty to take care that persons in pursuing their own particular interests do not transgress those laws which were made for the benefit of the whole community.
King v. Waddington (1800)
It is impossible for the Court to foresee when a sentence begins how it will end, and, sometimes, mischief is done before we are sure that the sentence will conclude in an offensive manner.
Williams' Case (1797)
Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.
The practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.
Wilson v. Rastall (1792)
Precedent goes in support of justice.
Smith v. Bowles (1797)
Every irregularity is not erroneous.
Jackson v. Hunter (1794)
It is a maxim in our law that a plaintiff must shew that he stands on a fair ground when he calls on a Court of justice to administer relief to him.
Booth v. Hodgson (1795)
Equity will go no further than the law.
Tooke v. Hollingworth (1793)
I can't look to contingencies.
Sikes v. Marshal (1799)
No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole.
Doe d. Willis and others v. Martin and others (1790)
There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.
Young and others v. The King (1789)
Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns out that certain cases were not foreseen.
Farmer v. Legg (1797)
It is the great duty of every Court of justice to administer justice as well as they can between the litigating parties ; another, and not less material, duty is to satisfy those parties that the whole case has been examined and considered.
Booth v. Hodgson (1795)
All Governments rest mainly on public opinion, and to that of his own subjects every wise Sovereign will look. The opinion of his subjects will force a Sovereign to do his duty, and by that opinion will he be exalted or depressed in the politics of the world.
Trial of John Vint and others (1799)
I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.
Eaton's Case (1793)
I should be desirous that my opinion should not be conclusive on the parties, if there were any mode by which our judgment could be reviewed in a Court of error.