More quotes by Joseph Yates
Old rights must remain: it would be very unreasonable if it should be otherwise.
The Courts can take no notice of anything but what comes judicially before them.
Nothing but what has visible substance, is capable of actual possession.
The law is too tenacious of private peace, to suffer litigations to be negotiable.
The sheriffs of London have been immemorially the sheriff of Middlesex.
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