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Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten
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“Some confidence there must be between merchant and manufacturer. In matters exclusively within the province of the manufacturer the merchant relies on the manufacturer's skill, and he does so all the more readily when he has had the benefit of that skill before.”
Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten (1830–1913) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Drummond v. Van Ingen (1887), L. R. 12 Ap. Cas. 297.
“It is not the function of a Court of justice to enforce or give effect to moral obligations which do not carry with them legal or equitable rights.”
Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten (1830–1913) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Blackburn, Low & Co. v. Vigors (1887), L. R. 12 Ap. Ca. 543.
“It is for the legislature to alter the law if Parliament in its wisdom thinks an alteration desirable.”
Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten (1830–1913) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hamilton v. Baker, "The Sara" (1889), L. R. 14 Ap. Ca. 227.
“People cannot escape from the obligation of a statute by putting a private interpretation upon its language.”
Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten (1830–1913) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Netherseal Colliery Co. v. Bourne (1889), L. R. 16 Ap. Ca. 247.
“To protect those who are not able to protect themselves is a duty which every one owes to society.”
Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten (1830–1913) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jenoure v. Delmege (1890), 60 L. J. Rep. (N. S.) Q. B. 13.
“You may not sell the cow and sup the milk.”
Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten (1830–1913) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoting an old adage in Nordenfelt v. Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co. (1894), L. R. App. Cas. (1894), L. R. App. Ca. Part 5, p. 572.
“It is a public scandal when the law is forced to uphold a dishonest act.”
Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten (1830–1913) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nordenfelt v. Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co. (1894), L. R. App. Ca. Part 5, p. 573.
“That was putting the case in a nutshell. But it is one thing to put a case like Shelley's in a nutshell and another thing to keep it there.”
Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten (1830–1913) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the subject of the rule in Shelley's Case (1 Rep. 104a); reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 170.