Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of… — Edward Coke 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
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
... 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
I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that… — Joseph Story 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
Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
“In American law, there is the Constitution and the whole body of common law precedent, and very little of that supports socialism.… — Stephen R.C. Hicks 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
“The common law … is no longer simple or straightforward. Instead it is complicated, often obscure and usually costly, so it can… — Courtenay Bryce Copy Share Image
'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their… — Judith Sargent Murray Copy Share Image
“It is unwise to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money, that is all. When you… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“the bourgeoisie wanted to insert something more than just the negative law of “this is not yours” between the worker and the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Law, being a practical thing, must found itself on actual forces. It is quite enough, therefore, for the law, that man, by… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
Consider: what could be more American than the principle that every person is to be held accountable for his or her crimes… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
“The Judges cannot make new law by new decisions; they do not assume a power of that kind: they only endeavour to… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
Dubai was brilliant, they looked around the world. They saw Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Sydney, London all ran British common… — Michael Strong Copy Share Image
Strip away the factual misinformation repeatedly peddled about the Human Rights Act and almost everyone acknowledges that it works well in practice.… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
“[A] people needs to understand what freedom is. We Americans are fortunate that the Founders and their generation possessed that understanding. They… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By the English common law, her husband was her lord and master. He had the custody of her person, and of her… — Harriet Hanson Robinson Copy Share Image
The common law of chattels, that is to say, the law ultimately adopted by the King's courts for the regulation of disputes… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
I expect from our judges that their verdicts are also inspired by Talmudic law - and not only by common law or… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
