All laws stand on the best and broadest basis which go to enforce moral and social duties. - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

I have often thought since that there is sound sense in what was once said by the late Lord C. J. Eyre, that the sooner a bad precedent was gotten rid of, the better.

It is of infinite importance to the public that the acts of magistrates should not only be substantially good, but also that they should be decorous.

It is impossible for the Court to foresee when a sentence begins how it will end, and, sometimes, mischief is done before we are sure that the sentence will conclude in an offensive manner.