Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten Quote

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.


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


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.

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.

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.

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.