Giles Rooke

If it were a doubtful point how the statute should be construed, I must consider myself as bound by the construction it has already received in two Courts in Westminster Hall.

Legal coercion is a course which the law allows.

In this case the plaintiff does not come into Court with clean hands; he alleges his own turpitude, and is indictable for his fraud.

Those who make the attack ought to be very well prepared to support it.

The best way in which a jury can execute their duty is to give their verdict according to the evidence before them.

I am bound by my oath to abide by the law, and I cannot suffer anybody to derogate from it.

The Crown used to call a Parliament annually, but there was not an annual election. These words, annuo parliamento, relate to the time of their meeting, and not their election.

Whatever doubts I had, I submit to the authority of the other Judges.