“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.

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