British Jurist Quotes

A. V. Dicey

John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune

Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?

Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.

Trial by jury is more than an instrument of justice and more than one wheel of the constitution: it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.

The anonymous writer, who, in 1692, published the first English essay "Of the Laws of Chance," thought it necessary to protest in his preface that the design of his book was "not to teach the art of playing at dice, but to deal with them as with other epidemic distempers, and perhaps persuade a raw squire to keep his money in his pocket."

John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune