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Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet Quotes

d. 1625 England

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet SL (c. 1560 – 29 December 1625), of Blickling Hall, was an English politician who succeeded Sir Edward Coke to become Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.

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The laws of the realm do admit nothing against the law of God.

Colt v. Glover (1614)

Fiction is never admitted where truth may work.

Wright v. Gerrard (1617)

A woman cannot be a pastor by the law of God. I say more, it is against the law of the realm.

Colt and another v. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1612)

It is the office of Judges to advance laws made for religion, according to their end, though the words be short and imperfect.

Colt v. Glover (1614)

Men will not commonly steal women that are nothing worth.

Bruton v. Morris (1614)

That whom he could not by the sword destroy, he might supplant by the law.

Sheffield v. Ratcliffe (1615)

Bind not the new statutes so to the common law, that their words increased for the King's advantage, should be deprived of their force.

Sheffield v. Ratcliffe (1615)

Zeal and indignation are fervent passions.

Sheffield v. Ratcliffe (1615)

Aucupia verborum sunt judice indigna: Catching at words is unworthy of a Judge.

Sheffield v. Ratcliffe (1615)

The statute is like a tyrant; where he comes he makes all void; but the common law is like a nursing father, makes only void that part where the fault is, and preserves the rest.

Nothing is more natural than to marry.

Sheffield v. Ratcliffe (1615)

Though all good men be called God's servants in their general vocation, yet they cannot be called the minister of God but to a more special use.

Pits v. James (1614)

I do exceedingly commend the Judges that are curious and almost subtil, Astuti (which is the word used in the Proverbs of Solomon in a good sense, when it is to a good end) to invent reasons and means to make Acts, according to the just intent of the parties, and to avoid wrong and injury which by rigid rules might be wrought out of the Act.

Earl of Clanrickard's Case (1614)

I may use mine own as I will.

Robins v. Barnes (1614)

Minister doth not always import an inferior to him to whom he doth minister: for the Psalm saith, God hath made man paulo inferiorem Angelis; and yet in the first chapter to the Hebrews it is said, that the Angels are ministering spirits, sent forth for the good of God's saints.

Pits v. James (1614)

Who sees not, that whosoever ministers to the poor, ministers to God? as it appears in that solemn sentence of the last day, Inasmuch as you did feed, clothe, lodge the poor, you did it unto me.

Pits v. James (1614)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.