Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.

An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.

"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.

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.

Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.

After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.

In the eye of the law no doubt, man and wife are for many purposes one: but that is a strong figurative expression, and cannot be so dealt with as that all the consequences must follow which would result from its being literally true.