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If the policy of the law has withheld from married women certain powers and faculties, the Courts of law must continue to treat them as deprived of those powers and faculties, until the legislature directs those Courts to do otherwise.

— John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

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I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.

Where a person interposes his interest and good offices to procure a pardon, it ought to be done gratuitously and not for money.

Your lordships must look hardships in the face rather than break down the rules of law.

Where there is a decision precisely in point, it is better to follow it.

Townley v. Bedwell (1808)

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