Willes
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Justice Willes · Mr. Justice Willes
in the texts
The Law of Intellectual Property
One of the three King's Bench Justices who decided in favor of an author's common law copyright.
Thus Justice Willes said, that “private justice, moral fitness, and public convenience, when applied to a new subject, make common law without a precedent;
But Willes says that “multiplying copies in print is quite a distinct thing from all the book communicates.
Willes said, (and it was apparently concurred in by both Aston and Mansfield,) that “All the knowledge, which can be acquired from the contents of a book, is free for every man’s use.
The Law of Torts
English judge to whose memory the book is dedicated.
Justice Willes will need no explanation of this book being dedicated to his memory.
but I think we may securely anticipate posterity in ranking the names of these (and I am sure we cannot more greatly honour them) with the name of their colleague Willes, a consummate lawyer too early cut off, who did not live to see the full fruit of his labour.
One more thing I must mention concerning Willes, that once and again he spoke or wrote to me to the effect of desiring to see the Law of Obligations methodically treated in English.