"It is necessary for Courts of Justice to hold a strict hand over summary proceedings before magistrates, and I never will agree to relax any of the rules by which they have been bound. Their jurisdiction is of a limited nature, and they must shew that the party was brought within it."
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Lord Kenyon, C.J., King v. Stone (1800), 1 East, 650.
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