Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes - Page 63

• It is a maxim in our law that a plaintiff must shew that he stands on a fair ground when he calls on a Court of justice to administer relief to him.

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  Law, Justice, Relief

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• The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.

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  Country, Marine, Men

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• It is of great importance that the laws by which the contracts of so numerous and so useful a body of men as the sailors are supposed to be guided, should not be overturned.

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  Men, Law, Body

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• It is sometimes difficult to get rid of first impressions.

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  First Impression, Firsts, Sometimes

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• A Court of equity can mould interests differently from a Court of law; and can give relief in cases where a Court of law cannot.

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  Law, Giving, Relief

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• Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.

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  Men, Race, Regulation

  "King v. The College of Physicians". 1797.

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• If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.

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  Mean, People, May

  "Williams' Case". 1797.

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• A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.

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  Judgment, Conviction, Certain

  "King v. Harris". 1797.

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• I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.

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  Punishment, Essentials, Judgment

  "King v. Harris". 1797.

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• I should be extremely sorry to find that in a fictitious proceeding, instituted for the more easy attaining of justice, different rules were to obtain in the different Courts.

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  Sorry, Justice, Different

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• A plaintiff who comes into a Court of justice must show that he is in a condition to maintain his action.

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  Justice, Action, Court

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• Precedent goes in support of justice.

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  Justice, Support, Precedent

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• Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns out that certain cases were not foreseen.

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  Anxiety, Events, Care

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• We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.

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  Parliament, Ought

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• Proceedings at law are sufficiently expensive.

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  Law, Expensive, Proceeding

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• The liberty of the press is dear to England; the licentiousness of the press is odious to England: the liberty of it can never be so well protected as by beating down the licentiousness.

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  Liberty, England, Dear

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• The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.

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  Acting, Advantage, Interest

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• There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.

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  Law, Criminals, Morality

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• It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.

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  Hands, Law, Justice

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• There is no magic in words.

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  Magic

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• We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law of the land: it descended to us as a sacred charge, and it is our duty to preserve it.

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  Fashion, Law, Land

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• Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.

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  Law, Sitting, Sanctions

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• Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.

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  Character, Instruction, Servant

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• A man may publish anything which twelve of his countrymen think not blamable.

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  Men, Thinking, Twelve

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• A Court of equity knows its own province.

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  Court, Equity, Provinces

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