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Personally, I detest any attempt to bring the law into maxims. Maxims are invariably wrong, that is, they are so general and large that they always include something which is not intended to be included.

— William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher Yarmouth v. France (1887)

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I for one will not re-open the floodgates of Admiralty jurisdiction upon the people of this country.

The Queen v. Judge of City of London Court (1891)

Parties cannot by consent give to the Court a power which it would not have without it.

In re Ayhner; Ex parte Bischofishiem (1887)

As to proceedings in Courts of justice, it is for the interest of all the public to hear what takes place in Court.

Pittard v. Oliver (1891)

Where a man calls himself by a name which is not his name, he is telling a falsehood.

Reddaway v. Banham (1895)

I agree that is the law, though I think it is a hard law; but we have nothing to do with the question of hardship.

In re Perkins (1890)

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