There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do. - Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley

When we find a series of decisions running down from the time of Sir William Grant, we should be very cautious, and very slow to overrule them.

I do not mean to say that the Court could not give leave to amend, but I cannot conceive that the Court would listen to an application for leave to amend after the trial. That could not have been intended: it would be opposed to all principles of justice.

As no Court has ever attempted to define fraud, so no Court has ever attempted to define undue influence, which includes one of its many varieties.