Sir Francis Buller

"Expressions used in particular cases are to be understood with relation to the subject-matter then before the Court."

"It seems to me that the argument of the defendant's counsel blows hot and cold at the same time."

"If the law be thought to be improper or inconvenient, application to correct it must be made elsewhere, and not to those who are bound by the repeated and solemn judgments of their predecessors."

"There is not in this country one rule by which the rich are governed, and another for the poor. No man has justice meted out to him by a different measure on account of his rank or fortune, from what …"

"An action cannot be supported for telling a bare naked lie: but that I define to be, saying a thing that is false, knowing or not knowing it to be so, and without any design to injure, cheat, or decei…"

"I think what has been considered as settled law for thirty years past ought not now to be departed from."

"I have always thought it highly injurious to the public that different rules should prevail in the different Courts on the same mercantile case. My opinion has been uniform on that subject. It sometim…"

"It was nobly said in another place "that the law is best applied, when it is subservient to the honesty of the case."