Every man that is injured ought to have his recompence. - John Holt

An universal custom is a law, and I know no distinction between lex mercatoria and consuetudo mercaborum.

Whatever at common law might be amended in civil cases, was at common law amendable in criminal, and so it is at this day.

Every injury imports a damage, though it does not cost the party one farthing, and it is impossible to prove the contrary; for a damage is not merely pecuniary, but an injury imports a damage, when a man is hereby hindered of his right. As in an action for slanderous words, though a man does not lose a penny by reason of the speaking them, yet he shall have an action. So if a man give another a cuff on the ear, though it cost him nothing, no, not so much as a little diachylon, yet he shall have his action, for it is a personal injury.