"The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others."
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Walker v. Ware, Hadham, &c. Rail. Co. (1866), 12 Jur. (N. S.) 18.
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John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly
John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly (20 January 1802 – 23 December 1874), known as Sir John Romilly between 1848 and 1866, was an English Whig politician and judge. He served in Lord John Russell's first administration as Solicitor-General from 1848 to 1850 and as Attorney-General from 1850 and 1851. The latter year he was appointed Master of the Rolls, a post he held until 1873. Knighted in 1848, he was ennobled as Baron Romilly in 1866.
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