Common sense still lingers in Westminster Hall

After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.

In the eye of the law no doubt, man and wife are for many purposes one: but that is a strong figurative expression, and cannot be so dealt with as that all the consequences must follow which would result from its being literally true.

Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.

"As the crow flies"—a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.

There is no presumption in this country that every person knows the law: it would be contrary to common sense and reason if it were so.

If a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting drunk, and comes out of one of the cellars very drunk wherein are a million gallons of wine, I think that would be reasonable evidence that he had stolen some of the wine in …