The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others. - John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

Courts of equity have always considered it of the greatest possible importance that parties should not sleep on their rights.

The duty of relieving his fellow creature in distress is imposed on the Christian irrespective of religious doctrines and tenets, and notwithstanding that the object of charity may worship God in an erroneous manner, but in that which he believes to be most acceptable to his Creator.

If a man who makes to another person, upon a solemn occasion, an assertion, upon which that person acts, he lies under an obligation to make good his assertion.