Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn: Act

Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn was British judge. Explore interesting quotes on act.

Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn: 16 quotes0 likes

“It has been a general rule for drawing deeds and other legal documents from the earliest times, which one is taught when one first becomes a pupil to a conveyancer, never to change the form of words unless you are going to change the meaning, and it would be as well if those who are engaged in the preparation of Acts of Parliament would bear in mind that that is the real principle of construction.”

Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn

Hadley v. Perks (1866), L. R. 1Q. B. 457.

“Whenever there is a real likelihood that the Judge would, from kindred or any other cause, have a bias in favour of one of the parties, it would be very wrong in him to act, and we are not to be understood to say that where there is a real bias of this sort this Court would not interfere.”

Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn

Reg. v. Rand (1867), L. R. 1 Q. B. 230.

“The rule of our law is that the immediate cause, the causa proxima, and not the remote cause, is to be looked at: for, as Lord Bacon says: "It were infinite for the law to judge the causes of causes and their impulsions one of another; therefore it contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgeth of acts by that, without looking to any further degree."”

Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn

Sneesby v. Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail. Co. (1874), L. R. 9 Q. B. Ca. 267.

“Whatever may be the case in a Court of morals, there is no legal obligation on the vendor to inform the purchaser that he is under a mistake, not induced by the act of the vendor.”

Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn

Smith v. Hughes (1871), L. R. 6 Q. B. 607.