Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.
William Henry MauleAfter a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.
William Henry MauleIf a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting drunk, and comes out of one of the cellars very drunk wherein are a million gallons of wine, I think that would be reasonable evidence that he had stolen some of the wine in that cellar, though you could not prove that any wine was stolen, or any wine was missed.
William Henry MauleAn enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.
William Henry Maule