
“We cannot make a law, we must go according to the law. That must be our rule and direction.”
Parkyns' Case (1696), 13 How. St. Tr. 72. Compare: "We cannot make laws". Reg. v. Nash (1703), 2 Raym. 990; Powell, J., Queen v. Read (1706), Fortesc. 99.
Parkyns' Case (1696), 13 How. St. Tr. 73.
“We cannot make a law, we must go according to the law. That must be our rule and direction.”
Parkyns' Case (1696), 13 How. St. Tr. 72. Compare: "We cannot make laws". Reg. v. Nash (1703), 2 Raym. 990; Powell, J., Queen v. Read (1706), Fortesc. 99.
“I am bound by my oath to abide by the law, and I cannot suffer anybody to derogate from it.”
Redhead alias Yorke's Case (1795), 25 How. St. Tr. 1083.
Reg v. Solomons (1890), 17 Cox, C. C. 93.
On due process, dissenting in In Re Winship, 397 U.S. 358 (1970).
“We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.”
Rajagopalachari (12 February 1949), quoted in [Rajmohan Gandhi, Rajaji: A Life, http://books.google.com/books?id=JjPHeRd7_UYC&pg=PA475, 1997, Penguin Books India, 978-0-14-026967-3, 286]
Spoken by C.R when Mahatma Gandhi (Bapu) was assassinated.
1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 134.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)
Source: Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians (1535), Chapter 2
“The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.”
Book I, Ch. 22. Of Custom
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)