McNaughton v. . Blocker

Mr. Moore and Mr. Hay, for the plaintiffs, argued that the common law of England, with respect to executors and administrators, is the law here, unless where it has been altered by acts of the Legislature passed since 1778, where the common law of England was enforced here by act of Assembly; and although the judges may be inclined to think some part of that law, as it respects executors and administrators, more strict than is perfectly consistent with equity, yet as they are to expound, not make, the law, and as the Legislature have never altered these seemingly exceptionable parts, it is…