“I wish as sincerely as any man, that learned men may have all the encouragements, and all the advantages that are consistent with the general right and good of mankind.”

— Joseph Yates (judge)

4 Burr. Part IV., 2394.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)

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