Nicholas Conyngham Tindal quotes

We should not be too strict in construing instruments or contracts generally drawn up on the spur of the moment. (Nicholas Conyngham Tindal)
Whatever restraint is larger than the necessary protection of the party, can be of no benefit to either, it can only be oppressive; and if oppressive, it is, in the eye of the law unreasonable. View quote
Nicholas Conyngham Tindal
The intention of the testator is the polar star by which we must be guided. View quote
Nicholas Conyngham Tindal
Immemorial enjoyment is the most solid of all titles. View quote
Nicholas Conyngham Tindal
It will appear, no doubt, that at various periods of our history there have been decisions as to the nature and description of the religious solemnities necessary for the completion of a perfect marriage, which cannot be reconciled together; but there will be found no authority to contravene the general position, that at all times, by the common law of England, it was essential to the constitution of a full and complete marriage, that there must be some religious solemnity; that both modes of obligation should exist together, the civil and the religious. View quote
Nicholas Conyngham Tindal