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An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

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It is the privilege of a trader in a free country, in all matters not contrary to law, to regulate his own mode of carrying it on according to his own discretion and choice.

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The Courts of law are not provided at the public expense, and were not intended by those who so provided them, for the settlement of any but differences which do arise in the ordinary course of business.

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My duty is, as a Judge, to be governed by fixed rules and former precedents.

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I apprehend that you may put a leading question to an unwilling witness on the examination in chief at the discretion of the Judge; but you may always put a leading question in cross-examination, whether a witness be unwilling or not.

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Edward Hall Alderson

Edward Hall Alderson
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Born: 1787
Died: January 27, 1857 (aged 70)
Bio: Sir Edward Hall Alderson was an English lawyer and judge whose many judgments on commercial law helped to shape the emerging British capitalism of the Victorian era.

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