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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)
Justice requires that a party should be duly summoned and fully heard before he is condemned.
King v. Stone (1800)
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)
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)
In the hurry of business, the most able Judges are liable to err.
Cotton v. Thurland (1793)
It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.
Petrie v. Hannay (1789)
He had no right to take the law into his own hands.
Tarleton v. McGawley (1795)
Precedent goes in support of justice.
Smith v. Bowles (1797)
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)
I can't look to contingencies.
Sikes v. Marshal (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)
No person is less disposed than I am to accommodate the law to the particular convenience of the case: but I am always glad when I find the strict law and the justice of the case going hand in hand together.
Peaceable v. Read and others (1801)
The character of the Judges is public property, and if they have done anything amiss, they ought to be censured. But if not, their characters ought to be respected; otherwise the most mischievous consequences will arise to the public.
Holt's Case (1793)
We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law of the land: it descended to us as a sacred charge, and it is our duty to preserve it.
Clayton v. Adams (1796)
I have been reminded that I sit here as counsel for the defendant. I certainly do so, so far as to interpose between him and the counsel for the prosecution, and to see that no improper use of the law is made against him, and that no improper evidence is given to the jury: but the Judge has another task to perform, which is that of assisting the jury in the administration of justice.
Wakefield's Case (1799)