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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.

John Eardley Wilmot

The statute law is the will of the legislature in writing; the common law is nothing else but statutes worn out by time; all our law began by consent of the legislature, and whether it is now law by usage or writing, it is the same thing.

John Eardley Wilmot

It is the principle of the common law, that an officer ought not to take money for doing his duty.

John Eardley Wilmot

I am not for stirring a single pebble of the common law.

John Eardley Wilmot