The "equality" remark above was rendered, in the UK, as "The courts of England are open to all, like the Ritz hotel".

The view that a properly incorporated company (or corporation) has a legal personality distinct from its shareholders or directors has been part of English law for much the same period (Saloman -v- Saloman) but is still occasionally attacked in the literature as irrational and the cause of injustice. But it is the general case throughout jurisdictions originally founded in English law.