I confess that when I am sought to be driven to a conclusio… - Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley

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I confess that when I am sought to be driven to a conclusion which appears to me unreasonable and unjust, I at once suspect the validity of the premises, even if I can detect no flaw in the reasoning from them.

Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley

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Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley SL PC FRS (29 November 1828 – 9 December 1921) was an English judge.

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Alternative Names: Nathaniel Lindley • Lindley LJ

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I do not see why, if we can tell what a man intends, and can give effect to his intention as expressed, we should be driven out of it by other cases or decisions in other cases. I always protest against anything of the sort.

It appears to me wrong in principle for any Court or Judge to impose fetters on the exercise by themselves or others of powers which are left by law to their discretion in each case as it arises.

When we find a series of decisions running down from the time of Sir William Grant, we should be very cautious, and very slow to overrule them.

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