“The common law of England must direct the determination of a common law question. By common-law determinations we are bound; and to them we must always adhere: for, these are the proper constitutional declarations of the law of the land. They are so considered, even by the Court of Chancery itself. When any doubt arises in a cause of equity concerning a point of common law, it is usually referred to the determination of a Court of Common Law.”
4 Burr. Part IV., 2377.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)
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“No tort is assignable, in law or equity. It is not within any species of action at common law.”
4 Burr. Part. IV., 2386.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)

Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764) Broken link http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Jefferson0136/Works/0054-01_Bk.pdf. Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes http://oll.libertyfund.org/ToC/0054.php, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, p. 459
1760s

“I think that common law is better than equity.”
Angus v. Clifford (1891), L. J. Rep. (N. S.) 60 C. D. 455.

The Queen v. Tutchin (1704), 1 Salk. 51 pl. 14.

5. U.S. (1 Cranch) 137
Marbury v. Madison (1803)

The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832), Third Institute. Compare: "Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason", Sir John Powell, Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. Rep. p. 911.
Institutes of the Laws of England
Source: Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769) 4 Burr, Part IV., 2377.

Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter V, The Law Of Chattels, p. 55