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“The subject being unusual, I fear that I shall not make myself intelligible, but I will do my endeavour, that the reasons of our judgment may be apprehended.”

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John Holt (Lord Chief Justice)

B. v. Knight and Burton (1699), 1 Raym. 527.

“Shall we indict one man for making a fool of another?”

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John Holt (Lord Chief Justice)

Reg. v. Jones (1703), 2 Raym. 1013.

“It is a disparagement of the Government, who put an ill man into office.”

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John Holt (Lord Chief Justice)

Regina v. Langley (1703), 2 Raym. 1029.

“Whatever at common law might be amended in civil cases, was at common law amendable in criminal, and so it is at this day.”

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John Holt (Lord Chief Justice)

The Queen v. Tutchin (1704), 1 Salk. 51 pl. 14.

“I do not pretend to dispense equity at large, but only by the consent of the parties, upon a rule of Court.”

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John Holt (Lord Chief Justice)

Anonymous (1699), 3 Salk. 213.

“We are not to issue process here as instruments or conduit-pipes, but judicially as Judges: and it will not be an objection to say, that we may award process at all hazards, and let the party grieved come after and plead to it; for we shall never grant an ill-writ, that the party may avoid it in pleading.”

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John Holt (Lord Chief Justice)

Lucy v. Bishop of St. David's (1702), 7 Mod. 59.