James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance: Court

James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance was British judge and rose breeder. Explore interesting quotes on court.

James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance: 8 quotes0 likes

“Every Court has the power to vary its own orders which are drawn up mechanically in the registry or in the office of the Court—to vary them in such a way as to carry out its own meaning, and where language has been used which is doubtful, to make it plain. I think that power is inherent in every Court. Speaking of the Courts with which I have been more familiar all my life, the Common Law Courts, I have no doubt that that can be done, and I should have no doubt that it could also be done by the Court of Chancery.”

James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance

Lawrie v. Lees (1881), L. R. 7 Ap. Ca. 35.

“There is no doubt whatever that as far as common law is concerned, the Courts in this country have been bound, most of them, by inflexible rules handed down in great measure from the time of the Plantagenets, and until certain modern statutes were passed there was no possibility of altering or improving them.”

James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance

Cowan v. Duke of Buccleuch (1876), L. R. 2 Ap. Ca. 355.

“Mankind naturally give evidence to the constituted Courts, and reputation is incurably damaged by their decisions, whether erroneous or not.”

James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance

Borough v. Collins (1890), L. R. 15 P. D. 85.