Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet: Act

Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet was British judge. Explore interesting quotes on act.
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“I think the motives of the legislature in passing an Act of Parliament are to be taken to be proper motives.”

Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet

1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 312.
Trial of Hunt and others (King v. Hunt) (1820)

“If a man sustains damage by the wrongful act of another, he is entitled to a remedy, but to give that title two things must concur, damage to himself and a wrong committed by the other. That he has sustained damage is not of itself sufficient.”

Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet

R. v. Commissioners of Pagham (1828), 8 B. & C. 362.

“There may be cases in which there is so much of difficulty in knowing where the law stands that we take time to consider, and sometimes doubt much and sometimes differ among ourselves. But I believe every one of the Judges acts upon the principle that he is before man and God in the discharge of his duty, and acts upon his solemn oath, and declares tbe law not according to any political fancy, or for the purposes of serving one party or serving another, but according to the pure conviction of his own mind without looking to any party.”

Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet

Case of Edmonds and others (1821), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 899.

“No one can doubt that presumptions may be made in criminal as well as in civil cases. It is constantly the practice to act upon them, and I apprehend that more than one half of the persons convicted of crimes are convicted on presumptive evidence.”

Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet

1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 131.
Trial of Sir Francis Burdett (King v. Burdett) (1820)