 | Kyle Scott - Law - 2007 - 194 pages
...waver with every new judge's opinion; as also because the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps...now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from ... he being sworn to determine . . . according... | |
 | 112 pages
...Clarendon Press. 2nd ed. 1766. VOL. 91, NO. 5, 1947] 407 cause the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps...now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breast of any subsquent judge to alter or vary from according to his private sentiments. . . . This... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Law - 1995 - 334 pages
...liable to waver with every new judge's opinion; as also because the law in that case being solemnly determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps...now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments: he being... | |
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For it is an established rule to abide by former precedents, where the same points come again in litigation: as well to keep the scale of justice even and steady, and not liable to waver with every new judge's opinion; as also because the law in that... 
