Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics
Rich E Book
Of Judicature, by Francis Bacon
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Bacon pointed out that a judge's duty was to interpret laws and not to make laws. This single essay of Bacon's is a richly condensed summary of the ethics of law. (Volume 3, Harvard Classics)

Bacon made Keeper of the Great Seal of England, March 7, 1616.