Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet: Quotes about laws

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet was English politician. Explore interesting quotes on law.

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet: 38 quotes 0 likes

“We know well that the Primitive Church in her greatest purity were but voluntary congregations of believers, submitting themselves to the Apostles, and after to other Pastors, to whom they did minister of their Temporals, as God did move them. So as Ecclesiasticus, cap. 17, says, God appointed a Ruler over every people, when he divided nations of the whole Earth. And therefore if a people will refuse all government, it were against the law of God; and yet if a popular State will receive a Monarchy it stands well with the Law of God.”

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet

Bruton v. Morris (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 149.

God , People , Law

“That whom he could not by the sword destroy, he might supplant by the law.”

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet

Lord Hobart's Rep. 335.
Sheffield v. Ratcliffe (1615)

Law

“The laws of the realm do admit nothing against the law of God.”

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet

Colt v. Glover (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 149.

God , Law

“A woman cannot be a pastor by the law of God. I say more, it is against the law of the realm.”

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet

Colt and another v. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1612), Hob. Rep. 148.

God , Law

“I commend the Judge that seems fine and ingenious, so it tend to right and equity. And I condemn them, that either out of pleasure to shew a subtil wit will destroy, or out of incuriousness or negligence will not labour to support the act of the party by the art or act of the law.”

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet

Pits v. James (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 124-125

Pleasure , Law , Art , Support

“It is the office of Judges to advance laws made for religion, according to their end, though the words be short and imperfect.”

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet

Colt v. Glover (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 157.

Religion , Law

“The statute is like a tyrant; where he comes he makes all void; but the common law is like a nursing father, makes only void that part where the fault is, and preserves the rest.”

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet

Quoted by Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet, C.J., in Maleverer v. Redshaw (1670), 1 Mod. Rep. 36 ; and by Wilmot, L.C.J., in Collins v. Blantern (1767), 2 Wils. 351.

Law , Parting

“Bind not the new statutes so to the common law, that their words increased for the King's advantage, should be deprived of their force.”

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet

Lord Hobart's Rep. 341.
Sheffield v. Ratcliffe (1615)

Law