John Eardley Wilmot Quotes

Sir John Eardley Wilmot PC SL , was an English judge, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1766 to 1771. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. August 1709 – 5. February 1792
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Famous John Eardley Wilmot Quotes

“Settlements are supposed in law to be indifferent to paupers; though they are often in fact desirous of one in preference to another.”

Rex v. Inhabitants of Burton-Bradstock (1765), Burrow (Settlement Cases), 535.

“The time makes no difference in the reason of the thing.”

Rex v. Inhabitants of Christchurch (1759), 2 Burr. Part IV. 949.

John Eardley Wilmot Quotes about laws

“I am not for stirring a single pebble of the common law.”

2 Wils. 341.
Collins v. Blantern (1767)

John Eardley Wilmot Quotes

“There is no merit in a settlement: it depends upon positive law.”

Rex v. Corporation of Carmarthen (1759), 2 Burr. Part IV. 873.

“God forbid that the rights of the innocent should be lost and destroyed by the offence of individuals.”

Mayor, &c. of Colchester v. Seaber (1765), 3 Burr. Part IV. 1871.

“The husband is not liable for the criminal conduct of his wife.”

Lockwood v. Coysgarne (1764), 3 Burr. Part IV. 1681.

“Many of the old cases are strange and absurd : so also are some of the modern ones.”

Pillans v. Van Mierop (1764), 3 Burr. Part IV. 1671.

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