Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet on Justice
1746–1800 England
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The law merchant is a system of equity, founded on the rules of equity, and governed in all its parts by plain justice and good faith.
Master v. Miller (1791)
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.
Bishop of London v. Ffytche (1800)
It was nobly said in another place (I heard it with pleasure, and thought it becoming the dignity of the person who pronounced it, and the place in which it was pronounced) "that the law is best applied, when it is subservient to the honesty of the case."
Master v. Miller (1791)
All arguments on the hardship of a case, either on one side or the other, must be rejected, when we are pronouncing what the law is; for such arguments are only quicksands in the law, and, if indulged, will soon swallow up every principle of it.
Yates v. Hall (1785)