"Acts of Parliament are the works of the legislature, and the publication of them has always belonged to the King, as …"

"Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it…"

"There is nothing so common in the framing of instruments as that whilst the framer of them is studious to avoid one i…"

"Un Act de Parlement poet fair aucun chose, comme de fair une feme Mayor ou Justice de Paix, car ceux sont les creatur…"

"The language of statutes is peculiar, and not always that which a rigid grammarian would use; we must do what we can …"

"There are two ways of construing an Act of Parliament—one to extend it to every case reasonably within its operation,…"

"All Acts of Parliament are to be expounded according to the true meaning to be collected from the words of 'em."

"We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament."

"The sense and meaning of an Act must be collected from what it says when passed into a law, and not from the history …"

"Inconvenience arising from the operation of an Act of Parliament can be no ground of argument in a Court of law."