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