William Murray Mansfield citáty

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William Murray Mansfield

Datum narození: 2. březen 1705
Datum úmrtí: 20. březen 1793

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William Murray Mansfield byl britský soudce.

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Citáty William Murray Mansfield

„Má-li být toto spravedlnost, půjdu domů a spálím své právnické knihy.“

— William Murray Mansfield

O knihách, O vzdělání, O spravedlnosti

„As mathematical and absolute certainty is seldom to be attained in human affairs, reason and public utility require that judges and all mankind in forming their opinions of the truth of facts should be regulated by the superior number of the probabilities on the one side or the other whether the amount of these probabilities be expressed in words and arguments or by figures and numbers.“

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Reported in Andrew Stuart, Letters to the Right Honorable Lord Mansfield (1773), p. 29.

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„A man wants no protection when his conduct is strictly right.“

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Bird v. Gunston (1785), 3 Doug. 275.

„An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.“

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Fisher v. Prince (1762), 3 Burr. Part IV. 1365.

„Whatever is contrary, bonos mores est decorum, the principles of our law prohibit, and the King's Court, as the general censor and guardian of the public manners, is bound to restrain and punish.“

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Jones v. Randall (1774), Lofft. 386.

„Anciently, the Courts of justice did sit on Sundays.“

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Swann v. Broome (1764), 3 Burr. Part IV., p. 1597.

„The last end that can happen to any man, never comes too soon, if he falls in support of the law and liberty of his country: for liberty is synonymous to law and government.“

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Rex v. Wilkes (1769), 4 Burr. Part IV., p. 2563.

„Tut, man, decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.“

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
When asked by an army officer, appointed governor of a west Indies island and who had no experience in law, how to apply the law. Quoted by John Cordy Jeaffreson in A Book About Lawyers http://books.google.com/books?id=lUpqPJSlBS8C&q="tut+man+decide+promptly+but+never+give+any+reasons+for+your+decisions+your+decisions+may+be+right+but+your+reasons+are+sure+to+be+wrong"&pg=PA85#v=onepage, Volume 1 (1867).