Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet Quotes

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.

The Court is at liberty to transpose and mould clauses and words in a will so as to make the whole take effect.

Dissentions existing between man and wife are in all events very unfortunate: when they become the subject of consideration to third persons, they are very unpleasant, and if the case requires that the conduct of each party should be commented upon in public, it is a most painful task to those to whose lot it falls to judge on them. The subject therefore is always to be handled with as much delicacy as it will admit of; but the infirmities of human nature have given rise to cruelties and other ill-treatment on the part of husbands, and to cases in which this Court has thought it indispensably necessary to interpose.

It seems to me that the argument of the defendant's counsel blows hot and cold at the same time.

Each plea must stand or fall by itself.

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

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.

A casus omissus can in no case be supplied by a Court of law, for that would be to make laws.

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