“[T]ake it to be the bounden duty of the Judge to lay down the law as it strikes him, and that of the jury to accede to it, unless they have superior knowledge on the subject.”

1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 130.
Trial of Sir Francis Burdett (King v. Burdett) (1820)

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