It is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy; for want of…

We cannot alter the law, we are bound by our oaths to proceed according to the law as it is at present.

We cannot make a law, we must go according to the law. That must be our rule and direction.

My judgment ought to be given for the plaintiff: but my brothers are all of another opinion, and so I submit to it. The defendant must have his judgment.

An universal custom is a law, and I know no distinction between lex mercatoria and consuetudo mercaborum.

I am far from being such a Judge as shall lay any intolerable yoke upon any one's neck.

No counsel in the world that understand themselves, can argue anything against what has been often settled and always practised.