I am not for stirring a single pebble of the common law. - John Eardley Wilmot

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I am not for stirring a single pebble of the common law.

John Eardley Wilmot

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About John Eardley Wilmot

Sir John Eardley Wilmot PC (Derby, England, 16 August 1709 – London, 5 February 1792), was an English judge, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1766 to 1771.

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