Whatever is injurious to the interests of the public is void, on the…

It is fraud in law if a party makes representations which he knows to be false, and injury ensues, although the motives from which the representations proceeded may not have been bad.

There is no reason for assuming, that the time of medical men and attornies is more valuable than that of others whose livelihood depends on their own exertions.

It is to be remembered that contracts in restraint of trade are in themselves, if nothing more appears to show them reasonable, bad in the eye of the law.

We should not be too strict in construing instruments or contracts generally drawn up on the spur of the moment.

Whatever restraint is larger than the necessary protection of the party, can be of no benefit to either, it can only be oppressive; and if oppressive, it is, in the eye of the law unreasonable.

Judicial decisions in Courts of justice are ranked by Lord Hale as one of the grounds or constituents of the common law.