"A proceeding may be perfectly legal and may yet be opposed to sound commercial principles."

"When we find a series of decisions running down from the time of Sir William Grant, we should be very cautious, and v…"

"One does not like to differ from a man without knowing the reasons which influenced him."

"A salvage service which hardly exceeds ordinary towage is naturally remunerated on a very different scale from an her…"

"As no Court has ever attempted to define fraud, so no Court has ever attempted to define undue influence, which inclu…"

"I take it that reasonable human conduct is part of the ordinary course of things."

"I do not wish to shake titles, and I shall do precisely what our predecessors have always done—leave the case where i…"

"I think that common law is better than equity."

"A very ingenious attempt to drive a coach-and-four through this Act of Parliament."

"We, as lawyers, as men of business, as men of experience, know perfectly well what evils necessarily result from hand…"