"Although our powers are great, they are not unlimited—they are bounded by some lines of demarcation."

"It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution."

"A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of re…"

"In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular ca…"

"Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it i…"

"I know of no privileged class of society, and I do not know an esquire has any privileges a yeoman has not."

"We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration."

"Human society was so constituted, for human nature was so constituted, that the honour and dignity of a father were c…"

"The twentieth century had conclusively settled the question of how a society should be organised: liberal democracy, …"

"For James, there was no sense that expanding Tesco’s sales onto the web was what the human race urgently needed. It d…"