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“I do not see to what purpose we exercise a superintendency over all inferior jurisdictions, unless it be to inspect their proceedings, and see whether they are regular or not. I have often heard it said that nothing shall be presumed one way or the other in an inferior jurisdiction.”

John Pratt

Rex v. Cleg (1722), 1 Stra. 476.

“Consider a little how you treat the Court; the objection hath been solemnly taken in this Court, argued and adjudged by this Court, and now you come to arraign that judgment that was then given.”

John Pratt

16 How. St. Tr. 313.
Layer's Case (1722)

“You have a right to discourse with your counsel, but you must do it in such a manner as the jury may not hear.”

John Pratt

16 How. St. Tr. 177.
Layer's Case (1722)

“Is ill-language a justification for blows?”

John Pratt

Case of Hugh Reason and another (1722), 16 How. St. Tr. 44; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 147.

“It is dangerous to make a precedent, an innovation.”

John Pratt

16 How. St. Tr. 132.
Layer's Case (1722)

“It is the glory and happiness of our excellent constitution, that to prevent any injustice no man is to be concluded by the first judgment; but that if he apprehends himself to be aggrieved, he has another Court to which he can resort for relief; for this purpose the law furnishes him with appeals, with writs of error and false judgment.”

John Pratt

King v. Chancellor, &c, of the University of Cambridge (1720), 1 Str. Rep. 564.

“Certainly the opinion of all the Judges of later times, must have more weight than the extra-judicial opinion of a single Judge at any former time.”

John Pratt

16 How. St. Tr. 112.
Layer's Case (1722)

“What is introductory goes for nothing, but it is in order to explain the evidence.”

John Pratt

16 How. St. Tr. 181.
Layer's Case (1722)

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