William Wood, 1. baron Hatherley cytaty

William Page Wood, 1. baron Hatherley – brytyjski prawnik i polityk, członek Partii Liberalnej, minister w rządach Johna Russella i Williama Ewarta Gladstone’a.

Był drugim synem sir Matthew Wooda, 1. baroneta. Wykształcenie odebrał w Winchester College, na Uniwersytecie Genewskim oraz w Trinity College na Uniwersytecie Cambridge. W 1824 r. rozpoczął praktykę adwokacką w korporacji Lincoln’s Inn. W 1830 r. poślubił Charlotte Moor . W 1845 r. otrzymał tytuł Radcy Królowej. W 1853 r. został wicekanclerzem Lincoln’s Inn. W 1868 r. został sędzią Sądu Apelacyjnego.

W latach 1847-1852 był deputowanym do Izby Gmin z okręgu Oxford. W 1849 r. został wicekanclerzem Księstwa Lancaster. W latach 1851-1852 był Radcą Generalnym Anglii i Walii. W 1868 r. został Lordem Kanclerzem. Otrzymał wówczas tytuł 1. barona Hatherley i zasiadł w Izbie Lordów. Zrezygnował ze stanowiska w 1872 r. z powodu kłopotów ze wzrokiem.

Zmarł w 1881 wraz z jego śmiercią wygasł tytuł parowski. Wikipedia

✵ 29. Listopad 1801 – 10. Lipiec 1881

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William Wood, 1. baron Hatherley: Cytaty po angielsku

“In questions of international law we should not depart from any settled decisions, nor lay down any doctrine inconsistent with them.”

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William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley

Udny v. Udny (1869), L. R. 1 Sc. & Div. Ap. Ca. 454.

“No doubt there are plenty of people in this world whom it is difficult to drive, but whom anybody can lead. It is well known that people who are generally most difficult to drive, are usually the most easily to be led by others who understand them.”

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William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley

Turner v. Collins (1871), L. R. 7 Ch. Ap. Ca. 340.

“Books are published with an expectation, if not a desire, that they will be criticised in reviews, and if deemed valuable that parts of them will be used as affording illustrations by way of quotation, or the like, and if the quantity taken be neither substantial nor material, if, as it has been expressed by some Judges, "a fair use" only be made of the publication, no wrong is done and no action can be brought.”

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William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley

Chatterton v. Cave (1877), L. R. 3 App. Cas. 492.

“When we talk of parental influence we do not think of terror in connection with it—that is not the primary idea—it is not terror and coercion, but kindness and affection, which may bias the child's mind, and induce the child to do that which may be highly imprudent, and which, if the child were properly protected, he would never do.”

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William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley

Turner v. Collins (1871), L. R. 7 Ch. Ap. Ca. 340.

“It is not fair to criticise every line and letter of a summing-up which has been delivered by a Judge in trying a case, especially when there is a somewhat imperfect record of it.”

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William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley

Prudential Assurance Co. v. Edmonds (1877), L. R. 2 App. Ca. 494.