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

An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.

- 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

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

"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.

- William Henry Maule

Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.

- 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…

- William Henry Maule