Quote#Freedom
I yield to authority. I think the practice of the Court of Chancery…
Quote byHardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury · 1823–1921
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Attorney-General v. Marquess of Ailesbury (1887), L. J. (N. S.) 57 Q. B. 89..
English (original)
I yield to authority. I think the practice of the Court of Chancery for more than one hundred years, and the authority of Judges of very great eminence, establish such a course of practice and such a chain of authority, that I do not think I am at liberty to assume that either the Court or those very learned Judges were in error as to their powers and jurisdiction.
— Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury
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