I have always thought that formerly there was too confined a way of thinking in the Judges of the common law Courts, and that Courts of equity have risen by the Judges not properly applying the principles of the common law, being too narrowly governed by old cases and maxims, which have too much prevented the public from having the benefit of the common law.


2 Wils. 341. - Collins v. Blantern (1767)

John Eardley Wilmot Quotes

I have always thought that formerly there was too confined a way of thinking in the Judges of the common law Courts, and that Courts of equity have...

I have always thought that formerly there was too confined a way of thinking in the Judges of the common law Courts, and that Courts of equity have...

I have always thought that formerly there was too confined a way of thinking in the Judges of the common law Courts, and that Courts of equity have...

I have always thought that formerly there was too confined a way of thinking in the Judges of the common law Courts, and that Courts of equity have...