Occupation: English Member Of Parliament Birth: April 25, 1788 Death: 1858
"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line..
Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on..
Fictions of law must be consistent with justice..
An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction..
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 th….
Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right..
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 ….
After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant..