The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband. — Harriet Hanson Robinson Copy Share Image
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors. — Dionysius of Halicarnassus Copy Share Image
I always wanted to have 'Bad Boys' on TV. 'Common Law' is reminiscent of my youth. — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty. — Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke Copy Share Image
“Lunacy 5.11 At common law, idiots are subject to a permanent legal incapacity to vote, but persons of unsound mind may vote… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
We are living out the liberal dream of our founders. The Constitution, the very liberal document - we have gone beyond English… — Alan Colmes Copy Share Image
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It will come as no surprise to anybody to know that I support the traditional definition of marriage as a union of… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived… — Robert Atkyns Copy Share Image
... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'. — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
I think the American justice system has a lot more issues than the European justice system, especially the Scottish justice system. We… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
“2. We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which through… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The invention of writs was really the making of the English Common Law; and the credit of this momentous achievement, which took… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is - well, anything. I just want to sleep.… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
“Almost all modern legal practice is derived from one of two distinct traditions. The first, the so-called civil law tradition, is a… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
“They are the typical product of the structure of the German Lager: if one offers a position of privilege to a few… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“In the past few thousand years—a mere split second in evolutionary time—humanity has achieved incredible advances in the differentiation of consciousness. We… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“The difference between the past and the present is that individual freedom and security no longer fall to be protected solely through… — Pius Langa Copy Share Image
“It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“Good Timber by Douglas Malloch The tree that never had to fight For sun and sky and air and light, But stood… — Douglas Malloch Copy Share Image
It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use… — Patricia Ireland Copy Share Image
A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
