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Without a known fact, it is impossible to know the law on that fact.

— John Vaughan Bushel's Case (1670)

Sans fact conus, est impossible de seier la ley sur cest fact.

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The law is an equal dispenser of Justice, and leaves none without a remedy, for his right, without his own laches.

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A comparative necessarily supposes a positive, and nothing is a meer privative.

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I grant that it is the opinion of Lord Coke, but salva reverentia to so great a sage and father of the law.

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For dishonest judgment Judges may be punished. Mirror of Justices reports that 44 were hanged for this cause.

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Sans fact conus, est impossible de seier la ley sur cest fact: Without a known fact, it is impossible to know the law on that fact.

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