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When Courts adopt a fiction they must necessarily support it.

— Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley Gray v. Sidneff (1803)

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No man can come into a British Court of justice to seek the assistance of the law who founds his claim upon a contravention of the British laws.

Morck v. Abel (1802)

It is true that Courts of equity, in administering justice, sometimes go further than the Courts of law.

Houghton v. Matthews (1803)

Inconvenience arising from the operation of an Act of Parliament can be no ground of argument in a Court of law.

Grigby v. Oakes (1801)

Amendments ought not to be made, except in cases where the alteration is of such a nature as that no one can be misled by it.

Ex parte Motley et uxor (1801)

In matters where a company is not restrained by Parliament they have a right to make reasonable regulations; but it will always be a question whether their regulations are reasonable or not.

Eagleton v. East India Co (1802)

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