I readily admit that the law which requires presumption or custom to be carried back for a period of nearly 700 years, is a bad and mischievous law, and one which is discreditable to us as a civilised and enlightened people, but such is the law; and while it so continues, I consider myself, in administering it, as bound to administer it as I find it; nor do I feel myself warranted in undermining or frittering it away by subtle fictions or artificial presumptions inconsistent with truth and fact.


Bryant v. Foot (1867), 15 W. R. 425; S. C. L. R. 2 Q. B. Ca. 179.

Sir Alexander Cockburn Quotes

I readily admit that the law which requires presumption or custom to be carried back for a period of nearly 700 years, is a bad and mischievous law,...

I readily admit that the law which requires presumption or custom to be carried back for a period of nearly 700 years, is a bad and mischievous law,...

I readily admit that the law which requires presumption or custom to be carried back for a period of nearly 700 years, is a bad and mischievous law,...

I readily admit that the law which requires presumption or custom to be carried back for a period of nearly 700 years, is a bad and mischievous law,...