An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction. - William Henry Maule

Common sense still lingers in Westminster Hall.

In the eye of the law no doubt, man and wife are for many purposes one: but that is a strong figurative expression, and cannot be so dealt with as that all the consequences must follow which would result from its being literally true.

My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner would be intolerable in Almighty God to a black beetle.