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We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge Cooper v. Griffin (1892)

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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

The Queen v. Instan (1893)

As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.

The Queen v. Bishop of London (1889)

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

Queen v. Sowerby (1894)

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