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

"There is no presumption in this country that every person knows the law: it would be contrary to common sense and rea…"

"Common sense still lingers in Westminster Hall."

"In the eye of the law no doubt, man and wife are for many purposes one: but that is a strong figurative expression, a…"

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

"After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant."

"If a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting drunk, and comes out of one of the cellars very drun…"

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

"You silly old fool, you don't even know the alphabet of your own silly old business."

"My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner would be intolerable in Almighty God…"