Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough Quotes

I know but of one Being to whom error may not be imputed.

It has been sometimes said, communis error facit jus; but I say communis opinio is evidence of what the law is; not where it is an opinion merely floating and theoretical floating in the minds of persons but where it has been made the ground-work and substratum of practice.

Cock-fighting must be considered a barbarous diversion.

No man should be allowed to have an interest against his duty.

I am as jealous of the rights of juries as of those of the Court.

I will not suffer the Christian religion to be reviled, while I sit in this Court, and possess the power of preventing it.

As a general rule, I beg that it may be understood, that a case is not to be cut into parts, but that when it is known what the question in issue is, it must be met at once.

It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.

It is of the greatest importance that the administration of justice should not only be free from spot or blame, but that it should be, so far as human infirmity could allow it to become, as free from all suspicion.

The law merchant respects the religion of different people.

The greater the truth the greater the libel.

Every one must be supposed to be cognizant of a public law.

I am willing to put the case into any shape you choose.

It is difficult to struggle with the common law.

The law of England is a law of liberty, and, consistently with this liberty, we have not what is called an imprimatur (let it be printed); there is no such preliminary licence necessary. But if a man publish a paper, he is exposed to the penal consequences, as he is in every other act, if it be illegal.