Robert Atkyns (judge): Quotes about laws

Robert Atkyns (judge) was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Lords. Explore interesting quotes on law.
Robert Atkyns (judge): 16 quotes0 likes

“And the law says, better is a mischief than an inconvenience. By a mischief is meant, when one man or some few men suffer by the hardship of a law, which law is yet useful for the public. But an inconvenience is to have a public law disobeyed or broken, or an offence to go unpunished.”

Robert Atkyns (judge)

11 How. St. Tr. 1208.
Trial of Sir Edward Hales (1686)

“The laws alone are they that always speak with all persons, high or low, in one and the same impartial voice. The law knows no favourites.”

Robert Atkyns (judge)

11 How. St. Tr. 1206.
Trial of Sir Edward Hales (1686)

“We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us.”

Robert Atkyns (judge)

11 How. St. Tr. 1204.
Trial of Sir Edward Hales (1686)

“There is no providence or wisdom of man, nor of any council of men that can foresee and provide for all events and variety of cases, that will or may arise upon the making of a new law.”

Robert Atkyns (judge)

11 How. St. Tr. 1208.
Trial of Sir Edward Hales (1686)