God forbid that the rights of the innocent should be lost and destroyed by the offence of individuals. - John Eardley Wilmot

The sentences of foreign Courts have always some degree of regard paid to them by the Courts of justice here: and it is very right that an attention should be paid to them, as far as they ought to have weight in the case depending.

A course of precedents and judicial proceedings in Courts of justice make the law: it would be endless to cite cases upon it. A course of practice for a few years has been held to controul an Act of Parliament.

There is no merit in a settlement: it depends upon positive law.