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

— John Vaughan Bushel's Case (1670)

Pur dishonest Judgm't Judges povent estre punv. Mirror de Justices report que 44 fueront pendus pur cest cause.

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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.

Tustian v. Roper (1670)

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

Tustian v. Roper (1670)

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

Tustian v. Roper (1670)

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

Bushel's Case (1670)

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.

J., Bushel's Case (1670)

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