John Eardley Wilmot: Court

John Eardley Wilmot was English judge. Explore interesting quotes on court.
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“Nothing could be of worse consequence, than that an officer of the Court should combine with a criminal to frustrate the sentence of the Court.”

John Eardley Wilmot

Rex v. Beardmore (1759), 2 Burr. Part IV. 175.

“A course of precedents and judicial proceedings in Courts of justice make the law: it would be endless to cite cases upon it. A course of practice for a few years has been held to controul an Act of Parliament.”

John Eardley Wilmot

Wilkes' Case (1770), 19 How. St. Tr. 1130.

“I have always thought that formerly there was too confined a way of thinking in the Judges of the common law Courts, and that Courts of equity have risen by the Judges not properly applying the principles of the common law, being too narrowly governed by old cases and maxims, which have too much prevented the public from having the benefit of the common law.”

John Eardley Wilmot

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

“The manner of the transaction was to gild over and conceal the truth; and whenever Courts of law see such attempts made to conceal such wicked deeds they will brush away the cobweb varnish and show the transactions in their true light.”

John Eardley Wilmot

2 Wils. 349.
Collins v. Blantern (1767)

“The sentences of foreign Courts have always some degree of regard paid to them by the Courts of justice here: and it is very right that an attention should be paid to them, as far as they ought to have weight in the case depending.”

John Eardley Wilmot

Robinson v. Bland (1760), 2 Burr. Part IV. 1084.