"You need not cite cases: 'Tis a principle."
— Legal counsel

January 1, 1970

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Lord Mansfield's remark to Counsel counsel in the course of the argument in Morgan v. Jones (1773), Lofft. 165. See also per Lord Alter stone in Rex r. Archbishop of Canterbury and another (1902), T. L. R. Vol. 18, 388.