Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten

"Some confidence there must be between merchant and manufacturer. In matters exclusively within the province of the manufacturer the merchant relies on the manufacturer's skill, and he does so all the more readily when he has had the benefit of that skill before."

"It is not the function of a Court of justice to enforce or give effect to moral obligations which do not carry with them legal or equitable rights."

"It is for the legislature to alter the law if Parliament in its wisdom thinks an alteration desirable."

"People cannot escape from the obligation of a statute by putting a private interpretation upon its language."

"To protect those who are not able to protect themselves is a duty which every one owes to society."

"You may not sell the cow and sup the milk."

"It is a public scandal when the law is forced to uphold a dishonest act."

"That was putting the case in a nutshell. But it is one thing to put a case like Shelley's in a nutshell and another thing to keep it there."