... pretences the most trivial. Since that period various similar efforts have been made, and these courts have been treated by Whig law legislators with a sort of suppressed contempt which is really marvellous, considering the credit they often claimed for ...

... many respects, with the perfect independence of the bench, and all this time, from 1856 to 1864, the proclaimed purpose of the Whig Law Reformers was to multiply, instead of diminish, the annual total of suits, for the relief of the Superior Courts and the ...