My distinction is, that in incorrect wills the Court may take liberties, but that if the words are correct they have no power to make any alteration. - Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet

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

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.

It was nobly said in another place (I heard it with pleasure, and thought it becoming the dignity of the person who pronounced it, and the place in which it was pronounced) "that the law is best applied, when it is subservient to the honesty of the case."