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Some instances of strength of memory are very surprising.

Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet
There is no distinction between a good jury and a common jury.

Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet
Customs which are consistent may be pleaded against each other.

Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet
The intention of the testator is the polar star by which we must be guided.

Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet
It is certainly a rule that the jury must find facts, and not merely evidence of facts.

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
Wherever a man neglects to take advantage of any defence which he has at the time, he waives it.

Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet
It seems to me that the argument of the defendant's counsel blows hot and cold at the same time.

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
The Court is at liberty to transpose and mould clauses and words in a will so as to make the whole take effect.

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
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
It has been uniformly laid down in this Court, as far back as we can remember, that good faith is the basis of all mercantile transactions.

Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet
My distinction is, that in incorrect wills the Court may take liberties, but that if the words are correct they have no power to make any alteration.

Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet
The Court is to pronounce according to the apparent intent of the testator, but that intent must be found in the words of the will, and is not to be collected by conjecture dehors the will.

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