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A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
[Lat., Male verum examinat omnis
Corruptus judex.]
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
[Lat., Male verum examinat omnis
Corruptus judex.]
The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the
facts.
[Lat., Judicis officium est read more
The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the
facts.
[Lat., Judicis officium est ut res ita tempora rerum
Quaerere.]
I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.
I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.
A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay
it: even those judges who know read more
A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay
it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general
practice.
[Fr., Le devoir des juges est de rendre justice, leur metier est
de la differer; quelques uns savent leur devoir, et font leur
metier.]
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge
That no king can corrupt.
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge
That no king can corrupt.
My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or
poisoning, but is about three goats, which, read more
My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or
poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I complain, have been
stolen by my neighbor. This the judge desires to have proved to
him; but you, with swelling words and extravagant gestures,
dilate on the Battle of Cannae, the Mithridatic war, and the
perjuries of the insensate Carthaginians, the Syllae, the Marii,
and the Mucii. It is time, Postumus, to say something about my
three goats.
O, let her brother live:
Thieves for the robbery have authority
When judges steal themselves.
O, let her brother live:
Thieves for the robbery have authority
When judges steal themselves.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and
Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of read more
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and
Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
