John Holt (Lord Chief Justice) Quote

We cannot alter the law, we are bound by our oaths to proceed according to the law as it is at present.


Parkyns' Case (1696), 13 How. St. Tr. 73.


We cannot alter the law, we are bound by our oaths to proceed according to the law as it is at present.

We cannot alter the law, we are bound by our oaths to proceed according to the law as it is at present.

We cannot alter the law, we are bound by our oaths to proceed according to the law as it is at present.

We cannot alter the law, we are bound by our oaths to proceed according to the law as it is at present.