 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 804 pages
...office is jus dicere and not jus „ dare; to interpret law, and not to make or give law — that they ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend than plausible, and more advised than confident — and above all things that integrity is their proper portion and virtue." VOL. rv. w The Constitution... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1841 - 436 pages
...gravity of bearing are an essential part of justice; and an over-speaking judge is no well tuned cymbal. Judges ought to be more learned than witty ; more...reverend than plausible; and more advised than confident. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar ; or... | |
 | Warren - 1842 - 824 pages
...gravity of bearing are an essential part of justice; and an over-speaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. Judges ought to be more learned than witty ; more...than plausible ; and more advised than confident. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar; or... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...under pretext of exposition of Scripture doth not stick to add and alter, and to pronounce that which they do not find ; and by show of antiquity to introduce...the landmark.' The mislayer of a mere stone is to hlame, but it is the unjust' judge that is the capital remover of land-marks, when he detineth amiss... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...exposition of Scripture doth not stick to add and alter, and to pronounce that which they do not flnd ; and by show of antiquity to introduce novelty. Judges...the landmark.' The mislayer of a mere stone is to hlame, but it is the unjust judge that is the capital remover of land-marks, when he defineth amiss... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...under pretext of exposition of Scripture doth not stick to add and alter, and to pronounce that which they do not find ; and by show of antiquity to introduce...proper virtue ; 'Cursed' (saith the law) 'is he, that removeih the landmark.' The mislayer of a mere stone is to blame, but it is the unjust judge that is... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 818 pages
...hard-headed, but strong-hearted," and " ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend than plausible, more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue." Hence, during the eight years he was Justice and Chief Justice of this court, he was laborious, pains-... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...under pretext of exposition of Scripture, doth not stick to add and alter, and to pronounce that which they do not find, and by show of antiquity to introduce...novelty. Judges ought to be more learned than witty, moie reverend than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...pretext oi' exposition of scripture, doth not stick to add and alter ; and to pronounce that which they do not find, and by show of antiquity to introduce...confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and propei virtue. " Cursed (saith the law) is he that removeth the landmark." The mislayer of a mere stone... | |
 | George Atkinson - Cumbria (England) - 1850 - 382 pages
...COMMON PLEAS AT WESTMINSTER J ONE OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE GREAT SEAL, ETC. 1741—1793. " Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend...things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue." — BACON. 44 //[[HE first principles of jurisprudence are simple '^ maxims of reason, of which the... | |
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Judges ought to be more learned than witty ; more reverend than plausible ; and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. 
