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God forbid that the rights of the innocent should be lost and destroyed by the offence of individuals.

— John Eardley Wilmot

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We cannot explore any mode of sentencing a man to imprisonment, who is imprisoned already, but by tacking one imprisonment to the other.

Case of John Wilkes (1763)

Nothing could be of worse consequence, than that an officer of the Court should combine with a criminal to frustrate the sentence of the Court.

Rex v. Beardmore (1759)

The time makes no difference in the reason of the thing.

Rex v. Inhabitants of Christchurch (1759)

It is the principle of the common law, that an officer ought not to take money for doing his duty.

Stotesbury v. Smith (1759)

Many of the old cases are strange and absurd : so also are some of the modern ones.

Pillans v. Van Mierop (1764)

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