Quote#Books & Reading
I should regard it as certainly a novelty in our jurisprudence if the…
Quote byHardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury · 1823–1921
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Stonor v. Fowle (1887), L. R. 13 Ap. Ca. 27..
English (original)
I should regard it as certainly a novelty in our jurisprudence if the regular order of a learned Judge could be affected, or qualified, or altered in the slightest degree by what some subordinate officer of the Court thought proper to say in writing about it, even though in so doing he committed this additional irregularity—that to that private correspondence he affixed the seal of the Court.
— Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury
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