They equipped their apartments as men staying alone could be expected to

Affection and chickens are words that are rarely found in the same sentence.

In days of old, masters of witty social commentary, such as Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce, relied on a fine turn of phrase to poke humour or ridicule.

Caveat emptor is an age-old concept.

It seems to me that amendments are like beauty — they depend upon the eye of the beholder as to their beneficial impact.

… a tribunal must be free to follow precedent even when it is not obliged to. It would be mischievous to oblige a tribunal to shut its eyes to its own previous decisions, policies, and interpretations.

Modern urban construction has become an increasingly complex affair.

In 1993, the Government of Canada enacted the "Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations", SOR/93-133 (the "PMNOC Regulations").

It is sometimes suggested that it is better to ask forgiveness than to ask for permission. That kind of locker-room advice was never good advice in a marriage and is not particularly useful in court either.

Creditors have better memories than debtors. Benjamin Franklin, circa 1758

As I listened to [the defendant] attempt to explain his theory I found it hard not to feel that I was being invited on a trip down the rabbit hole:  "When/use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.

  If people put as much effort into making disclosure as they do preparing costs submissions — perhaps they could have avoided having to make cost submissions.