Mischief

Overview

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Family guide

Cast & crew

MMel DamskiDirectorDoug McKeonas Jonathan BellahCatherine Mary Stewartas Bunny MillerKelly Prestonas Marilyn McCauleyChris Nashas Gene HarbroughD.W. Brownas KennyJami Gertzas RosalieMargaret Blyeas Claire MillerGraham Jarvisas Mr. MillerTerry O'Quinnas Claude HarbroughDarren Ewingas TedDDennis L. O'Connellas T.J.BBob McGuireas Mr. HewittBBryce Kassonas RobbieAAndrew Reamas Harry Horner

• “In a word, he had a head to contrive, and a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischieve, and his death appeared to be a great deliverance to the nation.”

• “Certainty is the mother of quiet, which is the end of the law, and tho' it falls out that some particular cases may light very hard, yet better that mischief than an inconvenience.”

• “Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.”

• “It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.”

• “And the law says, better is a mischief than an inconvenience. By a mischief is meant, when one man or some few men suffer by the hardship of a law, which law is yet useful for the public. But an inconvenience is to have a public law disobeyed or broken, or an offence to go unpunished.”

• “It is impossible for the Court to foresee when a sentence begins how it will end, and, sometimes, mischief is done before we are sure that the sentence will conclude in an offensive manner.”

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