 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...; and to pronounce that which they do not find, and by show of antiquity to introduce novelty. [2] Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend than plausible, and more advised than [8] confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. " Cursed (saith the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...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, more reverend...things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. 'Cursed (saith the law) is he that removeth the landmark." The mislay er of a mere stone is to blame... | |
 | Punjab (India) - Civil law - 1869 - 838 pages
...office is jus dicere, and not jus dare— to interpret law and not to make law or to give law. * * * Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend...things integrity is their portion and proper virtue. ' Cursed (saith the Law) is he that removeth the landmark.' The mislayer of a mere stone is to blame... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 438 pages
...for the eastern judicial circuit of Georgia. Judge Neilson is said to satisfy the Baconian test, that judges ought to be more learned than witty; more reverend than plausible; more advised than confident; and that, above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...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, more reverend...things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. " Cursed (saith the law) is he that removeth the landmark." ' The mislayer of a mere stone is to blame... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1873 - 266 pages
...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 ; more...things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. Cursed (saith the law) is he that removeth the landmark? The mislayer of a mere stone is to blame :... | |
 | 1873 - 578 pages
...their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare — to interpret law, and not to make law or give law. Judges ought to be more learned than witty; more reverend than plausible; and more advised than confident. Patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice; and an overspeaking judge is no well... | |
 | Sir John Fortescue - Constitutional law - 1874 - 382 pages
...cutting oft' evidence or counsel too short, or to prevent information by questions, although pertinent. Judges 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." In a... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 722 pages
...not jus dare ; to interpret law, not to make law, or give law. Lord Bacon has somewhere said, that judges ought to be more learned than witty; more reverend than plausible, and more advised than confident ; and that above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. Judge Neilson satisfies... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...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, more reverend...things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. . . . The principal duly of a judge is to suppress force and fraud ; whereof force is the more pernicious... | |
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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. 
