You all very well know what deference I always pay, and ever will, to that part of the office of a jury which properly belongs to them. In regard to the law, I have always been as tenacious of the proper function of a Judge, as I have been of that of the jury. I never will, while I have the honour of executing the office of a Judge, attempt to controul or influence their minds in respect of damages; but only submit to them such observations as occur to me upon the evidence.


Wilkes v. Lord Halifax (1763), 19 How. St. Tr. 1410.

John Eardley Wilmot Quotes

You all very well know what deference I always pay, and ever will, to that part of the office of a jury which properly belongs to them. In regard to...

You all very well know what deference I always pay, and ever will, to that part of the office of a jury which properly belongs to them. In regard to...

You all very well know what deference I always pay, and ever will, to that part of the office of a jury which properly belongs to them. In regard to...

You all very well know what deference I always pay, and ever will, to that part of the office of a jury which properly belongs to them. In regard to...