Judgment
The holding of the case can best be summed by Coke's words,
| “ | In all cases when the King is party, the sheriff may break the party's house, either to arrest him, or to do other execution of the K's process, if otherwise he cannot enter. But before he breaks it, he ought to signify the cause of his coming, and to make request to open doors… | ” |
The case is also famous for Coke's quote;
| “ | the house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose. | ” |
which became the popular proverb "an Englishman's home is his castle"
Read more about this topic: Semayne's Case
Famous quotes containing the word judgment:
“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 7:1,2.
Jesus.
“The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.”
—Midge Decter (b. 1927)
“The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candour of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)