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It is not fair to criticise every line and letter of a summing-up which has been delivered by a Judge in trying a case, especially when there is a somewhat imperfect record of it.

— William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley Prudential Assurance Co. v. Edmonds (1877)

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In questions of international law we should not depart from any settled decisions, nor lay down any doctrine inconsistent with them.

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No doubt there are plenty of people in this world whom it is difficult to drive, but whom anybody can lead. It is well known that people who are generally most difficult to drive, are usually the most easily to be led by others who understand them.

Turner v. Collins (1871)

When we talk of parental influence we do not think of terror in connection with it—that is not the primary idea—it is not terror and coercion, but kindness and affection, which may bias the child's mind, and induce the child to do that which may be highly imprudent, and which, if the child were properly protected, he would never do.

Turner v. Collins (1871)

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