It appears to me wrong in principle for any Court or Judge to impose fetters on the exercise by themselves or others of powers which are left by law … - Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley

I confess that when I am sought to be driven to a conclusion which appears to me unreasonable and unjust, I at once suspect the validity of the premises, even if I can detect no flaw in the reasoning from them.

We, as lawyers, as men of business, as men of experience, know perfectly well what evils necessarily result from handing over a great family estate to a mortgagee in possession, whose only chance of getting his money is to sacrifice the interests of everybody to money-getting.

When we find a series of decisions running down from the time of Sir William Grant, we should be very cautious, and very slow to overrule them.