Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet Quotes

Expressions used in particular cases are to be understood with relation to the subject-matter then before the Court.

All arguments on the hardship of a case, either on one side or the other, must be rejected, when we are pronouncing what the law is; for such arguments are only quicksands in the law, and, if indulged, will soon swallow up every principle of it.

Some instances of strength of memory are very surprising.

There is no distinction between a good jury and a common jury.

I think what has been considered as settled law for thirty years past ought not now to be departed from.

It has been uniformly laid down in this Court, as far back as we can remember, that good faith is the basis of all mercantile transactions.

Wherever a man neglects to take advantage of any defence which he has at the time, he waives it.

An action cannot be supported for telling a bare naked lie: but that I define to be, saying a thing that is false, knowing or not knowing it to be so, and without any design to injure, cheat, or deceive another person. Every deceit comprehends a he; but a deceit is more than a lie, on account of the view with which it is practised, its being coupled with some dealing, and the injury which it is calculated to occasion, and does occasion, to another person.

If the law be thought to be improper or inconvenient, application to correct it must be made elsewhere, and not to those who are bound by the repeated and solemn judgments of their predecessors.