Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten Quotes

Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten, was an Anglo-Irish rower, barrister, Conservative-Unionist politician and law lord. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. February 1830 – 17. February 1913
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Famous Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten Quotes

“To protect those who are not able to protect themselves is a duty which every one owes to society.”

Jenoure v. Delmege (1890), 60 L. J. Rep. (N. S.) Q. B. 13.

“You may not sell the cow and sup the milk.”

Quoting an old adage in Nordenfelt v. Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co. (1894), L. R. App. Cas. (1894), L. R. App. Ca. Part 5, p. 572.

“It is for the legislature to alter the law if Parliament in its wisdom thinks an alteration desirable.”

Hamilton v. Baker, "The Sara" (1889), L. R. 14 Ap. Ca. 227.

“People cannot escape from the obligation of a statute by putting a private interpretation upon its language.”

Netherseal Colliery Co. v. Bourne (1889), L. R. 16 Ap. Ca. 247.

“That was putting the case in a nutshell. But it is one thing to put a case like Shelley's in a nutshell and another thing to keep it there.”

On the subject of the rule in Shelley's Case (1 Rep. 104a); reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 170.

“It is a public scandal when the law is forced to uphold a dishonest act.”

Nordenfelt v. Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co. (1894), L. R. App. Ca. Part 5, p. 573.

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