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Ideas are free. But while the author confines them to his study, they are like birds in a cage, which none but he can have a right to let fly : for till he thinks proper to emancipate them, they are under his own dominion.

— Joseph Yates Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)

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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.

Rex v. Wilkes (1769)

Nothing but what has visible substance, is capable of actual possession.

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Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.

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The law is too tenacious of private peace, to suffer litigations to be negotiable.

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