John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

Quotes

• “Courts of equity have always considered it of the greatest possible importance that parties should not sleep on their rights.”
• “A master should be paid liberally, in order to secure a person properly qualified.”
• “The duty of relieving his fellow creature in distress is imposed on the Christian irrespective of religious doctrines and tenets, and notwithstanding that the object of charity may worship God in an erroneous manner, but in that which he believes to be most acceptable to his Creator.”
• “If a client be present in Court, and stand by and see his solicitor enter into terms of an agreement, and makes no objection whatever to it, he is not at liberty afterwards to repudiate it.”
• “The decisions of the House of Lords are binding on me and upon all the Courts except itself.”
• “The plaintiff cannot dive into the secret recesses of his (the defendant's) heart.”

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