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Charles Abbott était juriste britannique.

✵ 7. octobre 1762 – 4. novembre 1832
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Charles Abbott: Citations en anglais

“Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.”

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Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden

Townson v. Tickell (1820), 3 B. & A. 36.

“A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.”

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Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden

King v. Burdett (1820), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 140.

“We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.”

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Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden

Case of Edmonds and others (1821), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 924.

“It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.”

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Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden

Rex v. Bowditch (1818), 2 Chit. Rep. 281.

“I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.”

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Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden

Rex v. Middleton (1819), 1 Chit. Rep. 656.

“In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.”

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Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden

King v. Burdett (1820), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 140.

“Although our powers are great, they are not unlimited—they are bounded by some lines of demarcation.”

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Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden

The King v. Justices of Devon (1819), 1 Chit. Rep. 37.

“Human society was so constituted, for human nature was so constituted, that the honour and dignity of a father were connected with that of a son; and there was no son who must not be disturbed and disquieted by imputations on his father.”

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Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden

King v. Hunt (1824), 2 St. Tr. (N. S.) 100.

“I know of no privileged class of society, and I do not know an esquire has any privileges a yeoman has not.”

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Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden

Case of Edmonds and others (1821), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 889.

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