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“It is certain that every man has a right to keep his own sentiments, if he pleases: he has certainly a right to judge whether he will make them public, or commit them only to the sight of his own friends. In that state the manuscript is, in every sense his peculiar property; and no man can take it from him or make any use of it which he has not authorized, without being guilty of a violation of his property.”

Joseph Yates (judge)

4 Burr. Part IV., 2379.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)

“I wish as sincerely as any man, that learned men may have all the encouragements, and all the advantages that are consistent with the general right and good of mankind.”

Joseph Yates (judge)

4 Burr. Part IV., 2394.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)

“Old rights must remain: it would be very unreasonable if it should be otherwise.”

Joseph Yates (judge)

Mayor, &c. of Colchester v. Seaber (1765), 3 Burr. Part IV. 1872.

“Ideas are free. But while the author confines them to his study, they are like birds in a cage, which none but he can have a right to let fly : for till he thinks proper to emancipate them, they are under his own dominion.”

Joseph Yates (judge)

4 Burr. Part IV., 2379.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)