John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

Courts of equity have always considered it of the greatest possible importance that parties should not sleep on their rights.

— John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

A master should be paid liberally, in order to secure a person properly qualified.

— John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

The duty of relieving his fellow creature in distress is imposed on the Christian irrespective of religious doctrines and tenets, and notwithstanding that the object of charity may worship God in an erroneous manner, but in that which he believes to be most acceptable to his Creator.

— John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

If a client be present in Court, and stand by and see his solicitor enter into terms of an agreement, and makes no objection whatever to it, he is not at liberty afterwards to repudiate it.

— John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

The decisions of the House of Lords are binding on me and upon all the Courts except itself.

— John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

The plaintiff cannot dive into the secret recesses of his (the defendant's) heart.

— John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

If a man who makes to another person, upon a solemn occasion, an assertion, upon which that person acts, he lies under an obligation to make good his assertion.

— John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

The Court exercises its jurisdiction for the enforcement of the truth, and makes a man's acts square with his words, by compelling him to perform what he has undertaken.

— John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

There is no magic in words.

— John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others.

— John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

It is essential, when persons in trade come into this Court, that they should remember that the administration of equity is founded on perfect truth, and that if persons attempt to mislead the public by stating that which is not true, this Court will restrain them upon a clear case being made out against them.

— John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

There is no point on which a greater amount of decision is to be found in Courts of law and equity than as to what is reasonable; for instance, reasonable time, reasonable notice, and the like. It is impossible a priori to state what is reasonable in such cases. You must have the particular facts of each case established before you can ascertain what is meant by reasonable time, notice, and the like.

— John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly