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The time makes no difference in the reason of the thing.

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

John Eardley Wilmot
The husband is not liable for the criminal conduct of his wife.

John Eardley Wilmot
There is no merit in a settlement: it depends upon positive law.

John Eardley Wilmot
Many of the old cases are strange and absurd : so also are some of the modern ones.

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
God forbid that the rights of the innocent should be lost and destroyed by the offence of individuals.

John Eardley Wilmot
Settlements are supposed in law to be indifferent to paupers; though they are often in fact desirous of one in preference to another.

John Eardley Wilmot
We cannot explore any mode of sentencing a man to imprisonment, who is imprisoned already, but by tacking one imprisonment to the other.

John Eardley Wilmot
You shall not stipulate for iniquity. All writers upon our law agree in this, no polluted hand shall touch the pure fountains of justice.

John Eardley Wilmot
Nothing could be of worse consequence, than that an officer of the Court should combine with a criminal to frustrate the sentence of the Court.

John Eardley Wilmot
I cannot help thinking that where a person appeals to the Law of England, he must take his remedy according to the Law of England to which he has appealed.

John Eardley Wilmot
It is a strange, wild jurisdiction, where the jurors are judges both of law and fact, and ignorant country fellows2 are to determine the nicest points of law.

John Eardley Wilmot
An hiatus in government is so detested and abhorred, that the law says, "the King never dies," that there may never be a "cesser" of regal functions for a moment.

John Eardley Wilmot
These laws must be construed according to the intention of them: and the circumstances of things at the time of enacting them ought to be taken into consideration.

John Eardley Wilmot
If once we go upon niceties of construction, we shall not know where to stop. For one nicety is made a foundation for another; and that other for a third; and so on, without end.

John Eardley Wilmot