Sir R. S. Wright
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Mr. Justice Wright · Wright · the late Mr. Justice Wright
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Sir Robert Samuel Wright, judge and author of the Law of Criminal Conspiracies, whose historical arguments Dicey engages with critically.
The definition attributed to Lord Denman of a conspiracy as a “combination for accomplishing an unlawful end, or a lawful end by unlawful means” (see Wright, 63) is, it is submitted, sound, though too vague to be of much use.
Wright’s Law of Criminal Conspiracies—published before, but not republished after he was raised to the bench—contains elaborate arguments to show that this extension was illegitimate, and was not really supported by the authorities on which it is supposed to rest.
Wright, 13.
The Genius of the Common Law
Judge and scholar who collaborated with the author on the doctrine of possession and was expert in larceny.
Justice Wright, who had made a special study of the subject with reference to the criminal law.
I have known one man who thoroughly understood the law of larceny, the late Sir R.