Giles Rooke Quotes

Sir Giles Rooke was an English judge.

✵ 3. June 1743 – 7. March 1808
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Famous Giles Rooke Quotes

“Legal coercion is a course which the law allows.”

Giles Rooke

Cox v. Morgan (1801), 1 Bos. & Pull. 410.

“The best way in which a jury can execute their duty is to give their verdict according to the evidence before them.”

Giles Rooke

Trial of Redhead alias Yorke (1795), 25 How. St. Tr. 1149.

“I am bound by my oath to abide by the law, and I cannot suffer anybody to derogate from it.”

Giles Rooke

Redhead alias Yorke's Case (1795), 25 How. St. Tr. 1083.

“Whatever doubts I had, I submit to the authority of the other Judges.”

Giles Rooke

Mitchell v. Cockburne (1794), 2 H. B. 382.

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