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“It is not the function of a Court of justice to enforce or give effect to moral obligations which do not carry with them legal or equitable rights.”

Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten

Blackburn, Low & Co. v. Vigors (1887), L. R. 12 Ap. Ca. 543.

“To protect those who are not able to protect themselves is a duty which every one owes to society.”

Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten

Jenoure v. Delmege (1890), 60 L. J. Rep. (N. S.) Q. B. 13.

“You may not sell the cow and sup the milk.”

Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten

Quoting an old adage in Nordenfelt v. Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co. (1894), L. R. App. Cas. (1894), L. R. App. Ca. Part 5, p. 572.

“Some confidence there must be between merchant and manufacturer. In matters exclusively within the province of the manufacturer the merchant relies on the manufacturer's skill, and he does so all the more readily when he has had the benefit of that skill before.”

Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten

Drummond v. Van Ingen (1887), L. R. 12 Ap. Cas. 297.

“It is for the legislature to alter the law if Parliament in its wisdom thinks an alteration desirable.”

Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten

Hamilton v. Baker, "The Sara" (1889), L. R. 14 Ap. Ca. 227.

“People cannot escape from the obligation of a statute by putting a private interpretation upon its language.”

Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten

Netherseal Colliery Co. v. Bourne (1889), L. R. 16 Ap. Ca. 247.

“That was putting the case in a nutshell. But it is one thing to put a case like Shelley's in a nutshell and another thing to keep it there.”

Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten

On the subject of the rule in Shelley's Case (1 Rep. 104a); reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 170.

“It is a public scandal when the law is forced to uphold a dishonest act.”

Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten

Nordenfelt v. Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co. (1894), L. R. App. Ca. Part 5, p. 573.

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