“The sentences of foreign Courts have always some degree of regard paid to them by the Courts of justice here: and it is very right that an attention should be paid to them, as far as they ought to have weight in the case depending.”

— John Eardley Wilmot

Robinson v. Bland (1760), 2 Burr. Part IV. 1084.

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English judge 1709–1792

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