Torts Quotes

“Ex dolo main non oritur actio.”

“None shall take advantage of his own wrong.”

“Every man that is injured ought to have his recompence.”

“He whose dirt it is must keep it that it may not trespass.”

“The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others.”

“Personal injury is a more serious matter than damage to property.”

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“The advantage to the community outweigh the injury to the individual.”

“What a man does in his closet ought not to affect the rights of third persons.”

“An injured party may proceed in Westminster Hall notwithstanding any order of the House.”

“Where a man has but one remedy to come at his right, if he loses that he loses his right.”

“To say that whenever the world grows wiser it convicts those that came before of negligence.”

“No tort is assignable, in law or equity. It is not within any species of action at common law.”

“It is not very consonant with the simplicity of the old law to give two remedies for the same evil.”

“Better that an individual should suffer an injury than that the public should suffer an inconvenience.”

“It is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy; for want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal.”

“A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.”

“The well-known maxim that you must not, when you have the choice, elect to use your property so as to cause injury to your neighbour.1—”

“To entitle a plaintiff to maintain an action, it is necessary to shew a breach of some legal duty due from the defendant to the plaintiff.”