Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for …

Francis Bacon
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. ✨ Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author, p.377
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