I yield to authority. I think the practice of the Court of Chancery for more than one hundred years, and the authority of Judges of very great eminence, establish such a course of practice and such a chain of authority, that I do not think I am at liberty to assume that either the Court or those very learned Judges were in error as to their powers and jurisdiction.

— Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury Attorney-General v. Marquess of Ailesbury (1887)

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