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I should regret to place a narrowing construction upon rules intended to remove expense and delay.

— Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury Jay v. Budd (1897)

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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.

Attorney-General v. Marquess of Ailesbury (1887)

"Discretion" means, when it is said that something is to be done within the discretion of the authorities that that something is to be done according to the rules of reason and justice, not according to private opinion2; according to law and not humour. It is to be not arbitrary, vague, and fanciful, but legal and regular. And it must be exercised within the limit, to which an honest man, competent to the discharge of his office, ought to confine himself.

Sharp v. Wakefield (1891)

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