"I have no power to follow the authorities cited to me from the United States if by so doing I were to contravene the …"

"Do you think things outside the United States cannot be relevant to an understanding of how to apply the American Con…"

"But that's the document, I'm interpreting that document. And to think that one might learn from other countries in ho…"

"If you have that philosophy, obviously foreign law is irrelevant with one exception: Old English law, because phrases…"

"The sentences of foreign Courts have always some degree of regard paid to them by the Courts of justice here: and it …"

"The Judge has not organs to know and to deal with the text of the foreign law, and therefore requires the assistance …"

"To learn what the laws of a country are, is not the work of a day even in pacific times, and to persons accustomed to…"

"It is every day's practice with us to decide cases which turn upon the laws of foreign countries, or the laws adminis…"

"Unless Parliament has conferred upon the Court that power in language which is unmistakable, the Court is not to assu…"

"We should treat with great respect the opinion of eminent American lawyers on points which arise before us, but the p…"