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I cannot help thinking that where a person appeals to the Law of England, he must take his remedy according to the Law of England to which he has appealed.

John Eardley Wilmot

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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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