Arguments from the American statute are not of much force, because Englishmen are not bound to know it. - Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet

In a perfectly new case—a case altogether primae impressionis—I think the Judges are bound to hold fast to the principles of the common law—to remember the maxim, "Salus reipublicae suprema lex," and if the condition be really in principle against the public good, to pronounce it in their judgment void.

International law, like the moral law, is part of the law of England, but only to the extent that the Courts will not help those that break it.

In criminal cases you always begin by proving the corpus delicti, and then connect the prisoner with it.