John Holt

Let all people come in, and vote fairly; it is to support one or the other party, to deny any man's vote.

If public officers will infringe men's rights, they ought to pay greater damages than other men, to deter and hinder other officers from the like offences.

If it be a matter within our jurisdiction, we are bound by our oaths to judge of it.

Every man that is injured ought to have his recompence.

Where a man has but one remedy to come at his right, if he loses that he loses his right.

It would look very strange, when the Commons of England are so fond of their right of sending representatives to Parliament, that it should be in the power of a sheriff, or other officer, to deprive them of that right, and yet that they …

It is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy; for want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal.

Actual perceptible damage is not indispensable as the foundation of an action; it is sufficient to show the violation of a right, in which case the law will presume damage.

We must not be frighted when a matter of property comes before us by saying it belongs to the Parliament; we must exert the Queen's jurisdiction.

I agree we ought not to incroach or inlarge our jurisdiction; by so doing we usurp both on the right of the Queen and the people.

Surely the navy must be the navy royal.

He whose dirt it is must keep it that it may not trespass.

Whatever at common law might be amended in civil cases, was at common law amendable in criminal, and so it is at this day.

It is a disparagement of the Government, who put an ill man into office.

Shall we relieve a man, that trusts when he needs not?

Shall we indict one man for making a fool of another?

We take notice of all feasts, and the almanack is part of the common law, the calendar being established by Act of Parliament, and it is published before the Common-prayer Book.

It is abominable to convict a man behind his back.

A man may be reputed an able man this year, and yet be a beggar the next; it is a misfortune that happens to many men, and his former reputation will signify nothing.

We are not to issue process here as instruments or conduit-pipes, but judicially as Judges: and it will not be an objection to say, that we may award process at all hazards, and let the party grieved come after and plead to it; for we …

I do not pretend to dispense equity at large, but only by the consent of the parties, upon a rule of Court.

The subject being unusual, I fear that I shall not make myself intelligible, but I will do my endeavour, that the reasons of our judgment may be apprehended.

A gentleman of Lincoln's-inn.

Rokeby, J.: I do not think but a Popish doctor may be a good doctor to a Protestant patient; but I do not think that a Popish governor can be a good governor for a Protestant subject. Holt, C.J.: Aye, but a Popish censor is not so proper …