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When a man is asked if he is an esquire, and he answers that he is an esquire, the general understanding is that he is a person of no profession or o… - Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet
" "When a man is asked if he is an esquire, and he answers that he is an esquire, the general understanding is that he is a person of no profession or occupation.
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About Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet
Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet, QC (24 September 1802 – 20 November 1880) was a Scottish lawyer, politician and judge. A notorious womaniser and socialite, as Lord Chief Justice he heard some of the leading causes célèbres of the nineteenth century.
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Alexander Cockburn, 12. Baronet
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Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet
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Alexander Cockburn
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Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, of Langton, 12th Bt.
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I readily admit that the law which requires presumption or custom to be carried back for a period of nearly 700 years, is a bad and mischievous law, and one which is discreditable to us as a civilised and enlightened people, but such is the law; and while it so continues, I consider myself, in administering it, as bound to administer it as I find it; nor do I feel myself warranted in undermining or frittering it away by subtle fictions or artificial presumptions inconsistent with truth and fact.
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