Francis Bacon — "Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to i…"

Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law. Else will it be like the authority, claimed by the Church of Rome, which under pretext of exposition of Scripture, doth not stick to add and alter; and to pronounce that which they do not find; and by show of antiquity, to introduce novelty.
Francis Bacon — Francis Bacon Early Modern · Empiricism, scientific method

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Essays, 'Of Judicature'

Date: 1625

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