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I am bound by my oath to abide by the law, and I cannot suffer anybody to derogate from it.

— Giles Rooke Redhead alias Yorke's Case (1795)

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The best way in which a jury can execute their duty is to give their verdict according to the evidence before them.

Trial of Redhead alias Yorke (1795)

In this case the plaintiff does not come into Court with clean hands; he alleges his own turpitude, and is indictable for his fraud.

Farmer v. Russell (1798)

Legal coercion is a course which the law allows.

Cox v. Morgan (1801)

Those who make the attack ought to be very well prepared to support it.

Almgill v. Pierson (1797)

If it were a doubtful point how the statute should be construed, I must consider myself as bound by the construction it has already received in two Courts in Westminster Hall.

Cox v. Morgan (1801)

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