"I think the old, sound, and honest maxim that "you shall not do evil that good may come," is applicable in law as well as in morals."

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Reg. v. Hicklin and another (1868), 11 Cox, C. C. 27; S. C. 3 L. R. Q. B. 372; reported in Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904) by James William Norton-Kyshe, p. 92.