“My Lord… it would be well if you would stick to your good law and leave off your bad Latin.”

George III of the United Kingdom; reported in John Campbell, The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest till the death of Lord Tenterden (2006), p. 58.
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