“It was nobly said in another place (I heard it with pleasure, and thought it becoming the dignity of the person who pronounced it, and the place in which it was pronounced) "that the law is best applied, when it is subservient to the honesty of the case."”

— Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet

Master v. Miller (1791), 4 T. R. 335.

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British judge 1746–1800

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