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John Pratt
8 quotes
“It is the glory and happiness of our excellent constitution, that to prevent any injustice no man is to be concluded by the first judgment; but that if he apprehends himself to be aggrieved, he has another Court to which he can resort for relief; for this purpose the law furnishes him with appeals, with writs of error and false judgment.”
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Recorded in: King v. Chancellor, &c, of the University of Cambridge (1720), 1 Str. Rep. 564.
“Is ill-language a justification for blows?”
John Pratt (1657–1725) first seen 1722 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Case of Hugh Reason and another (1722), 16 How. St. Tr. 44; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 147.
“I do not see to what purpose we exercise a superintendency over all inferior jurisdictions, unless it be to inspect their proceedings, and see whether they are regular or not. I have often heard it said that nothing shall be presumed one way or the other in an inferior jurisdiction.”
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Recorded in: Rex v. Cleg (1722), 1 Stra. 476.
“Certainly the opinion of all the Judges of later times, must have more weight than the extra-judicial opinion of a single Judge at any former time.”
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“It is dangerous to make a precedent, an innovation.”
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“You have a right to discourse with your counsel, but you must do it in such a manner as the jury may not hear.”
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“What is introductory goes for nothing, but it is in order to explain the evidence.”
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“Consider a little how you treat the Court; the objection hath been solemnly taken in this Court, argued and adjudged by this Court, and now you come to arraign that judgment that was then given.”
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