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Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.
King v. Woolf (1819)
Taking out a commission of bankruptcy is a well-known mode of recovering a debt.
Guthrie v. Fisk (1824)
You may discuss the question of legality on legal grounds, but not by an argumentum ad hominem.
Trial of Hunt and others (King v. Hunt) (1820)
The Court has no fears for the safety of the Christian religion. It does not believe that the rock upon which Christianity stands can ever be shaken.
Trial of Mary Ann Carlile (1821)
By our rules we cannot receive a letter from a friend.
King v. Knowles (1820)
The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done.
Forbes v. Cochrane and Cockburn (1824)
I think the motives of the legislature in passing an Act of Parliament are to be taken to be proper motives.
Trial of Hunt and others (King v. Hunt) (1820)
I cannot properly give advice to anybody. It is very often supposed Judges can give advice, and I therefore take this public opportunity of saying that a Judge cannot do it.
Trial of Dewhurst and others (1820)
So long as Courts of justice remain Courts of justice there must be decency maintained.
Trial of Hunt and others (King v. Hunt) (1820)
It is of the greatest importance that the administration of justice should not only be free from spot or blame, but that it should be, so far as human infirmity could allow it to become, as free from all suspicion.
Trial of Hunt and others (King v. Hunt) (1820)
I am obliged to watch as he has no counsel
King v. Knowles (1820)
Do not open that which is not evidence.
King v. Knowles (1820)
If a man sustains damage by the wrongful act of another, he is entitled to a remedy, but to give that title two things must concur, damage to himself and a wrong committed by the other. That he has sustained damage is not of itself sufficient.
R. v. Commissioners of Pagham (1828)
Let no cobler go beyond his last.
Trial of Hunt and others (King v. Hunt) (1820)
If a man endeavours to obtain a repeal of those laws, which are conceived to be obnoxious, or the introduction of any laws which he believes to be salutary, if he does that legally, there is no objection to it.
Trial of Hunt and others (King v. Hunt) (1820)
No one can doubt that presumptions may be made in criminal as well as in civil cases. It is constantly the practice to act upon them, and I apprehend that more than one half of the persons convicted of crimes are convicted on presumptive evidence.
Trial of Sir Francis Burdett (King v. Burdett) (1820)
[T]ake it to be the bounden duty of the Judge to lay down the law as it strikes him, and that of the jury to accede to it, unless they have superior knowledge on the subject.
Trial of Sir Francis Burdett (King v. Burdett) (1820)
Where a man speaks upon a subject of his own accord, he naturally tells the whole of what he knows; but where he is examined on interrogatories formally administered to him, his answers are naturally confined to the particulars to which he is so interrogated; and as the examining party generally knows beforehand the scope of the witness's evidence, he has an opportunity of so shaping his questions as that they may elicit everything in his favour with which the witness is acquainted, and keep back everything of a contrary tendency.
Berkeley Peerage Case (1811)