 | Electronic journals - 1925 - 630 pages
...also because the law in this case being solemnly declared and determined what before was uncertain and indifferent is now become a permanent rule which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from according to the known laws and customs of the... | |
 | Richard A. Posner - Law - 1983 - 436 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, according to his private sentiments.15 23. 3... | |
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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... 
