“If the law be thought to be improper or inconvenient, application to correct it must be made elsewhere, and not to those who are bound by the repeated and solemn judgments of their predecessors.”

—  Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet

Bishop of London v. Ffytche (1800), 1 East, 495.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "If the law be thought to be improper or inconvenient, application to correct it must be made elsewhere, and not to thos…" by Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet?
Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet photo
Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet 24
British judge 1746–1800

Related quotes

Filippo Baldinucci photo

“He who would form a correct judgment of their tone, must hear first one bell and then the other.”

Filippo Baldinucci (1625–1697) Italian art historian

A chi vuol dar buon giudizio del suono, bisogna il sentire l’una campana, e l’altra.
La Veglia. (Ed. Milan, 1812. Opere, Vol. XIV., p. 213).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 241.

Enoch Powell photo

“The Bill … does manifest some of the major consequences. It shows first that it is an inherent consequence of accession to the Treaty of Rome that this House and Parliament will lose their legislative supremacy. It will no longer be true that law in this country is made only by or with the authority of Parliament… The second consequence … is that this House loses its exclusive control—upon which its power and authority has been built over the centuries—over taxation and expenditure. In future, if we become part of the Community, moneys received in taxation from the citizens of this country will be spent otherwise than upon a vote of this House and without the opportunity … to debate grievance and to call for an account of the way in which those moneys are to be spent. For the first time for centuries it will be true to say that the people of this country are not taxed only upon the authority of the House of Commons. The third consequence which is manifest on the face of the Bill, in Clause 3 among other places, is that the judicial independence of this country has to be given up. In future, if we join the Community, the citizens of this country will not only be subject to laws made elsewhere but the applicability of those laws to them will be adjudicated upon elsewhere; and the law made elsewhere and the adjudication elsewhere will override the law which is made here and the decisions of the courts of this realm.”

Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1972/feb/17/european-communities-bill in the House of Commons (17 February 1972) on the Second Reading of the European Communities Bill
1970s

“I always say that not all judges are corrupt there are some of them who labour night and day to give up their best and to make sure that judgments are based on evidence received and the applicable laws.”

Folake Solanke (1932) Nigerian lawyer

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6lqx-jLCac Folake Solanke speaks on the Corruption of Judges in Nigeria.

Prevale photo

“To be immediately inconvenients to most people, it is enough to be true, correct and sincere.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Per essere immediatamente scomodi alla maggior parte delle persone, è sufficiente essere veri, corretti e sinceri.
Source: prevale.net

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. photo

“Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.”

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007) American historian, social critic, and public intellectual

The Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Democracy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966) p. 91

Vasily Grossman photo

“Everyone who has read your book are unanimous in their judgment. They all think it is politically harmful for us. There is no point in giving it for an evaluation to the writers Fedin, Leonov, Ehrenburg, etc. The reviewers could have made a mistake in their aesthetic judgment but they were unanimous in their political judgment, and I have no doubt that their political judgment is absolutely correct.”

Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer

1960s

William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper photo

“It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.”

William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper (1665–1723) English politician and first Lord Chancellor of Great Britain

Devit v. College of Dublin (1720), Gilbert Eq. Ca. 249; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 176.

Nicholas of Cusa photo

“Now law ought to be made by all those who are to be bound by it, or by a majority in an election, because it is for the good of the community, and what affects all ought to be decided by all, and a common decision can only be reached by the consent of all, or of a majority.”

Nicholas of Cusa book De concordantia catholica

There can be no excuse for disobeying the laws when each has established the law for himself.
De concordantia catholica (The Catholic Concordance) (1434)

Aung San Suu Kyi photo

“While a private individual may be bound only by the formal vows that he makes, those who govern should be wholly bound by the truth in thought, word and deed.”

Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy

In Quest of Democracy (1991)

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon photo

“Though this motion for a new trial is an application to the discretion of the Court, it must be remembered that the discretion to be exercised on such an occasion is not a wild but a sound discretion, and to be confined within those limits within which an honest man, competent to discharge the duties of his office, ought to confine himself. And that discretion will be best exercised by not deviating from the rules laid down by our predecessors; for the practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.”

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (1732–1802) British Baron

Wilson v. Rastall (1792), 4 T. R. 757.

Related topics