Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet - Law Quotes

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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

If the law be thought to be improper or inconvenient, application to correct it must be made elsewhere, and not to those who are bound by the repeated and solemn judgments of their predecessors.

Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet

I think what has been considered as settled law for thirty years past ought not now to be departed from.

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

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

The law merchant is a system of equity, founded on the rules of equity, and governed in all its parts by plain justice and good faith.

Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet