“It is not fair to criticise every line and letter of a summing-up which has been delivered by a Judge in trying a case, especially when there is a somewhat imperfect record of it.”

Prudential Assurance Co. v. Edmonds (1877), L. R. 2 App. Ca. 494.

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Lord Chancellor of Great Britain 1801–1881

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