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A judgment for too little, is as bad as a judgment for too much.

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A Judge ought to be severe in awarding costs when he finds that expenses have been incurred through a wrongful suppression of material documents.

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It is unconscionable in a defendant, to take advantage of the apices litigandi, to turn a plaintiff round, and make him pay costs where his demand is just. Against such objections every possible presumption ought to be made, which ingenuity can suggest. How disgraceful then would it be to the administration of justice to allow Chicane to obstruct Bight; by the help of a legal fiction contrary to the help of the fact!

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I will be no party to paying out of charity property costs which are not properly payable out of it.

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By the rule of law, the King neither receives or pays costs.

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The Crown was always an unequal match for the subjects: but if the weight of costs were thrown into the scale, this would become such an addition as would make its prosecutions heavier than they would be able to bear.

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Damages are designed not only as a satisfaction to the injured person, but likewise as a punishment to the guilty, to deter from any such proceeding for the future, and as a proof of the detestation of the jury to the action itself.

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I wish to know, in a case where a man disregards every principle which actuates the conduct of gentlemen, what is to restrain him except large damages?

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To excuse himself from damage, must say, was ready always and at all times.

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

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An ejectment is an ingenious fiction, for the trial of titles to the possession of land.

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This case of removing a man who lives upon his own, is a case of a tender nature: and the Court ought not to give too readily in to it.

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I have looked into the books in order to discover the origin of the proceeding of paying money into Court, but without being able to fix the period of its commencement, though I think it highly probable that it took its rise early in the present century.

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Specific performance is relief which this Court will not give, unless in cases where the parties seeking it come promptly, and as soon as the nature of the case will permit.

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