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It is to my mind much to be regretted, and it is a regret which I believe every Judge on the bench shares, that text-books are more and more quoted in Court—I mean, of course, text-books by living authors—and some Judges have gone so far as to say that they shall not be quoted.

— Arthur Kekewich Union Bank v. Munster (1887)

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It is the right of her Majesty's subjects to make claims and to have them tried in the constitutional way.

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I must look at the decision with reference to all the circumstances which led to it.

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Motives do not concern me; they are a dangerous subject with which to deal.

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