Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Joseph Yates
Joseph Yates Quotes
16 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
It is certain that every man has a right to keep his own sentiments, if he pleases: he has certainly a right to judge whether he will make them public, or commit them only to the sight of his own friends. In that state the manuscript is, in every sense his peculiar property; and no man can take it from him or make any use of it which he has not authorized, without being guilty of a violation of his property.
Joseph Yates
Source
Report...
Great attention and respect is undoubtedly due to the decisions of a Lord Chancellor: but they are not conclusive upon a Court of common law.
Joseph Yates
Source
Report...
The invention of an author is a species of property unknown to the common law of England. Its usages are immemorial; and the views of it tend to the benefit and advantage of the public with respect to the necessaries of life, and not to the improvement and graces of mind.
Joseph Yates
Source
Report...
It is proper to inquire into the practice and precedents; and to see whether they have been uniform and concomitant.
Joseph Yates
Source
Report...
The Court must have ministers : the attornies are its ministers.
Joseph Yates
Source
Report...
If the custom be general, it is the law of the realm: if local only, it is lex loci, the law of the place. Now, all laws are general, as far as the law extends; and all customs of England are of course, immemorial.1 No usage, therefore, can be part of that law, or have the force of a custom, that is not immemorial.
Joseph Yates
Source
Report...
The common law of England must direct the determination of a common law question. By common-law determinations we are bound; and to them we must always adhere: for, these are the proper constitutional declarations of the law of the land. They are so considered, even by the Court of Chancery itself. When any doubt arises in a cause of equity concerning a point of common law, it is usually referred to the determination of a Court of Common Law.
Joseph Yates
Source
Report...
Nothing but what has visible substance, is capable of actual possession.
Joseph Yates
Source
Report...
The sheriffs of London have been immemorially the sheriff of Middlesex.
Joseph Yates
Source
Report...
The law is too tenacious of private peace, to suffer litigations to be negotiable.
Joseph Yates
Source
Report...
I wish as sincerely as any man, that learned men may have all the encouragements, and all the advantages that are consistent with the general right and good of mankind.
Joseph Yates
Source
Report...
The Courts can take no notice of anything but what comes judicially before them.
Joseph Yates
Source
Report...
No tort is assignable, in law or equity. It is not within any species of action at common law.
Joseph Yates
Source
Report...
Old rights must remain: it would be very unreasonable if it should be otherwise.
Joseph Yates
Source
Report...
Improvement in learning was no part of the thoughts or attention of our ancestors.
Joseph Yates
Source
Report...
Ideas are free. But while the author confines them to his study, they are like birds in a cage, which none but he can have a right to let fly : for till he thinks proper to emancipate them, they are under his own dominion.
Joseph Yates
Quote of the day
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
Joseph Yates
Born:
1722
Died:
June 7, 1770
(aged 48)
Bio:
Sir Joseph Yates of Peel Hall, Little Hulton, Lancashire was an eminent English judge.
Most used words:
law
common
court
property
immemorial
man
england
proper
general
Joseph Yates on Wikipedia
Suggest an edit or a new quote
English Judge Quotes
Judge Quotes
18th-century Judge Quotes
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes