Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet: Believer

Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet was British judge. Explore interesting quotes on believer.

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“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.

God , Law , Time

“The Court has no fears for the safety of the Christian religion. It does not believe that the rock upon which Christianity stands can ever be shaken.”

Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet

Trial of Mary Ann Carlile (1821), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 1050.

Fear , Religion

“If a man endeavours to obtain a repeal of those laws, which are conceived to be obnoxious, or the introduction of any laws which he believes to be salutary, if he does that legally, there is no objection to it.”

Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet

1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 484.
Trial of Hunt and others (King v. Hunt) (1820)

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