It is a public scandal when the law is forced to uphold a dishonest act. - Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten

People cannot escape from the obligation of a statute by putting a private interpretation upon its language.

You may not sell the cow and sup the milk.

Some confidence there must be between merchant and manufacturer. In matters exclusively within the province of the manufacturer the merchant relies on the manufacturer's skill, and he does so all the more readily when he has had the benefit of that skill before.