Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet - Case Quotes

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Dissentions existing between man and wife are in all events very unfortunate: when they become the subject of consideration to third persons, they are very unpleasant, and if the case requires that the conduct of each party should be commented upon in public, it is a most painful task to those to whose lot it falls to judge on them. The subject therefore is always to be handled with as much delicacy as it will admit of; but the infirmities of human nature have given rise to cruelties and other ill-treatment on the part of husbands, and to cases in which this Court has thought it indispensably necessary to interpose.

Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet
It was nobly said in another place (I heard it with pleasure, and thought it becoming the dignity of the person who pronounced it, and the place in which it was pronounced) "that the law is best applied, when it is subservient to the honesty of the case."

Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet
All arguments on the hardship of a case, either on one side or the other, must be rejected, when we are pronouncing what the law is; for such arguments are only quicksands in the law, and, if indulged, will soon swallow up every principle of it.

Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet
Expressions used in particular cases are to be understood with relation to the subject-matter then before the Court.

Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet
A casus omissus can in no case be supplied by a Court of law, for that would be to make laws.

Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet