Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.
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. - William Henry Maule
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.
- William Henry Maule
An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction. - William Henry Maule
An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.
Fictions of law must be consistent with justice. - William Henry Maule
After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant. - William Henry Maule
After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.
Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on. - William Henry Maule
Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.
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 … - William Henry Maule
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 …
"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line. - William Henry Maule
"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.
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… - William Henry Maule
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…
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