William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper Quote

It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.


Devit v. College of Dublin (1720), Gilbert Eq. Ca. 249; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 176.


It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.

It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.

It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.

It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.