In matters where a company is not restrained by Parliament they have…

The act of a single Judge, unless adopted by the Court to which he belongs, is of no validity. As the Courts do not sit in vacation, many things are done by the Judges individually; but their acts, when recognised, become the acts of the …

No man can come into a British Court of justice to seek the assistance of the law who founds his claim upon a contravention of the British laws.

Amendments ought not to be made, except in cases where the alteration is of such a nature as that no one can be misled by it.

When Courts adopt a fiction they must necessarily support it.

Inconvenience arising from the operation of an Act of Parliament can be no ground of argument in a Court of law.

It is true that Courts of equity, in administering justice, sometimes go further than the Courts of law.