Top 7 William Henry Maule Quotes

#1. Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.

William Henry Maule

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

William Henry Maule

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

William Henry Maule

#4. 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.

William Henry Maule

#5. 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.

William Henry Maule

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

William Henry Maule

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

William Henry Maule

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