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Sir John Pratt PC était un juge et homme politique anglais. Il a été Lord juge en chef d'Angleterre et du pays de Galles du 15 mai 1718 au 2 mars 1725. Il fut nommé chancelier de l'Échiquier par intérim du 2 février 1721 au 3 avril 1721. Wikipedia  

✵ 1657 – 1725
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John Pratt: Citations en anglais

“I do not see to what purpose we exercise a superintendency over all inferior jurisdictions, unless it be to inspect their proceedings, and see whether they are regular or not. I have often heard it said that nothing shall be presumed one way or the other in an inferior jurisdiction.”

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Rex v. Cleg (1722), 1 Stra. 476.

“Consider a little how you treat the Court; the objection hath been solemnly taken in this Court, argued and adjudged by this Court, and now you come to arraign that judgment that was then given.”

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16 How. St. Tr. 313.
Layer's Case (1722)

“You have a right to discourse with your counsel, but you must do it in such a manner as the jury may not hear.”

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16 How. St. Tr. 177.
Layer's Case (1722)

“Is ill-language a justification for blows?”

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Case of Hugh Reason and another (1722), 16 How. St. Tr. 44; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 147.

“It is the glory and happiness of our excellent constitution, that to prevent any injustice no man is to be concluded by the first judgment; but that if he apprehends himself to be aggrieved, he has another Court to which he can resort for relief; for this purpose the law furnishes him with appeals, with writs of error and false judgment.”

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King v. Chancellor, &c, of the University of Cambridge (1720), 1 Str. Rep. 564.

“Certainly the opinion of all the Judges of later times, must have more weight than the extra-judicial opinion of a single Judge at any former time.”

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16 How. St. Tr. 112.
Layer's Case (1722)

“What is introductory goes for nothing, but it is in order to explain the evidence.”

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16 How. St. Tr. 181.
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