E. Qimron, The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Hebrew Writings, vol. 1 (2020 revision), p. 16
Qimron's base text is 4QDᵃ and his apparatus for CDᵃ notes only אלה מלטו.
Answer this reading
If you read this hand, say which reading the detail supports. Give your credentials so the author can weigh the answer and, if you agree, acknowledge you. Nothing is published until the author has read it.
— Mr. Justice Holloway, King's Bench, The Trial of the Seven Bishops (King's Bench, 1688), 1739 print, p. 413
“To make it a Libel it must be False, it must be Malicious, and it must tend to Sedition.”
— Mr. Justice Powell, King's Bench, The Trial of the Seven Bishops (King's Bench, 1688), 1739 print, p. 422
“If this be once allowed of, there will need no Parliament, all the Legislature will be in the King.”
— Mr. Justice Powell, King's Bench, The Trial of the Seven Bishops (King's Bench, 1688), 1739 print, p. 424
“Access to the sovereign must not be shut up in case of the subjects distresses.”
— The Court of Star Chamber, resolution of the whole Court, Wrenham's Case (Star Chamber, 1618), Hobart 220, 80 Eng. Rep. 367
“In causa sua propria nemo potest esse Judex.”
— William Lyndwood, gloss on Stephen Langton's constitution (Oxford, 1222), Provinciale (Oxford, 1679), p. 312, gloss r. 'In his own cause no man can be judge.'
“So long as he is the true minister of God, and pronounceth according to his worde.”
— The Geneva Bible's annotators, note on Deuteronomy 17:12, The Bible and Holy Scriptures (Geneva, 1560), fol. 88v, original spelling
“Ut poena ad paucos, metus ad omnes perveniat, without respect of persons, be they publique or private, great or small.”
— Sir Edward Coke, The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, cap. 5, The Court of Star-Chamber, p. 63 (London, 1797 ed.)
“Geue no sentence before thou hast herde the cause, but first let men tell out their tayles.”
“Go not to lawe with the iudge: for he wyll iudge accordynge to hys awne honoure.”
— Ecclesiasticus 8:14, Great Bible, The Byble in Englyshe (Great Bible, Cranmer ed., 1540), Jesus the sonne of Syrach, fo. xxxix
“Heare the small as well as the greate, and be afrayed of no man, for the iudgement is Gods.”
— Deuteronomy 1:17, Great Bible, The Byble in Englyshe (Great Bible, 1540), Deuteronomium, chapter 1
“Questions which merely lurk in the record, neither brought to the attention of the court nor ruled upon, are not to be considered as having been so decided as to constitute precedents.”
“Let them be Lions, but yet Lions vnder the Throne; Being circumspect, that they doe not checke, or oppose any Points of Soueraigntie.”
— Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban, The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall (London, 1625), LVI, Of Iudicature, p. 324 (1625 spelling)
“Hereafter the Greatness of a Judge or Magistrate shall be no Sanctuary or Protection to him against Guiltiness.”
— Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor, in his submission to the House of Lords, 1621, A Collection of the Proceedings in the House of Commons against the Lord Verulam (2nd ed., London, 1721), p. 27
“The questioning of Men in eminent Places, hath the same Terror, though not the same Rigour with the Punishment.”
— Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor, to the House of Lords, 1621, A Collection of the Proceedings in the House of Commons against the Lord Verulam (2nd ed., London, 1721), p. 30
“You will make Bribery to be unpunish'd, if he who carrieth the Bribe shall not be a Witness.”
— Sir Edward Coke, in the House of Commons, 17 March 1621, A Collection of the Proceedings in the House of Commons against the Lord Verulam (2nd ed., London, 1721), p. 16
“If the Fountains be muddy, what will the Streams be? If the great Dispenser of the King's Conscience be corrupt, who can have any Courage to plead before him?”
— Sir Robert Philips, reporting to the House of Commons, 17 March 1621, A Collection of the Proceedings in the House of Commons against the Lord Verulam (2nd ed., London, 1721), pp. 11–12
“no Court can be esteemed in Law, or Reason, a competent Judge of its own Errors”
— Thomas Hobbes, the Philosopher in his Dialogue on the common laws, A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England (1681), in The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes (London, 1750), pp. 606–07
“to judge in a point of difference, hearing but one partie speake, is assuredly to be vnjust”
— The charge at the Norwich assizes, 1607, printed under Sir Edward Coke's name, The Lord Coke his Speech and Charge (London: Nathaniel Butter, 1607), sigs. C2r–C3v
“although malice be the accuser, justice should be the punisher”
— The Court of Star Chamber, sentencing a justice of the peace, 11 October 1605, as reported by John Hawarde, Hawarde, Les Reportes del Cases in Camera Stellata, 1593 to 1609 (W. P. Baildon ed., London, 1894), pp. 234–35 (Throgmorten v. Stafforde)
“whether the ministers of justice may oppress with impunity!”
— Senator Clinton, dissenting in the New York Court for the Correction of Errors, Yates v. Lansing, 9 Johns. 395, 441 (N.Y. 1811)
“The right to sue and defend in the courts is the alternative of force. In an organized society it is the right conservative of all other rights, and lies at the foundation of orderly government.”
— The Supreme Court of the United States, Chambers v. Baltimore & Ohio R.R., 207 U.S. 142, 148 (1907)
“so that no wrong or injury, either publick or private, can be done, but that this shall be reformed or punished in one court or other by due course of law”
— Sir Edward Coke, on the King's Bench, The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England (London, 1797 ed.), p. 71
