It is the more fit for the Supreme Court to give some certain rule in it that may regulate and guide the judgment of inferior Courts. - Robert Atkyns

A people whom Providence hath cast together into one island or country are in effect one great body politic, consisting of head and members, in imitation of the body natural, as is excellently set forth in the statute of appeals, made 24 H. 8, c. 12, which stiles the King the supreme head, and the people a body politic (these are the very words), compact of all sorts and degrees of men, divided into spirituality and temporality. And this body never dies.

Pleading is an exact setting forth of the truth.

The best men are but men, and are sometimes transported with passion.