Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet Quotes

Sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, PC was a British lawyer and Tory politician.

✵ 23. September 1783 – 28. August 1870
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Famous Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet Quotes

“Arguments from the American statute are not of much force, because Englishmen are not bound to know it.”

Attorney General v. Sillem and others (1864). The Alexandra, 12 W. R. 261.

“You need not cite cases that are familiar.”

Reg. v. Baldry (1852), 5 Cox, C. C. 525.

Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet Quotes

“Judges are philologists of the highest order.”

Ex parte Davis (1857), 5 W. R. 523.

“Circumstantial evidence only raises a probability.”

Reg. v. Rowton (1865), 13 W. R. 437.

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