Parties cannot by consent give to the Court a power which it would not have without it. - William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher

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Parties cannot by consent give to the Court a power which it would not have without it.

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About William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher

William Baliol Brett, 1st Viscount Esher, PC (13 August 1815 - 24 May 1899), known as Sir William Brett between 1868 and 1883, was a British lawyer, judge, and Conservative politician. He was briefly Solicitor-General under Benjamin Disraeli and then served as a justice of the Court of Common Pleas between 1868 and 1876, as a Lord Justice of Appeal between 1876 and 1883 and as Master of the Rolls. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Esher in 1885 and further honoured when he was made Viscount Esher on his retirement in 1897.

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Alternative Names: William Brett • Sir William Brett • William Baliol Brett, 1st Viscount Esher
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It seems to me that whenever circumstances arise in the ordinary business of life in which, if two persons were ordinarily honest and careful, the one of them would make a promise to the other, it may properly be inferred that both of them understood that such a promise was given and accepted.
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