“The liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation. — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse. — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children, even of aliens, born in a country, while… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
If any refuse to obey the common laws and orders of the ship concerning their common peace or preservation; if any shall… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
One needs but to study the directory of directories of the great business concerns of the country to determine the extent to… — Robert La Folette Copy Share Image
I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of… — James Otis Copy Share Image
“A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of a carpet must be a genius.” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“To a great extent, friluftsliv is made possible by the Swedish common law of allemansratten (the right of public access), which grants… — Linda Akeson McGurk Copy Share Image
I have to confess I do have a slight preference. I do think, naturally, that people from India and Australia are in… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
“Iniquum est collapsis manum non porrigere: commune hoc ius generis humani est" (It is wrong not to stretch out your hand to… — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
I'm a common law judge. I believe in deciding every case on its facts, not on a legal philosophy. And I believe… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I think there's a difference between making a feel-good movie like 'Think Like a Man' and a feel-good show like 'Common Law.'… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
“If, therefore, from the settlement of the Saxons, to the introduction of Christianity among them, that system of religion could not be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Here we introduce the nation's first great communications monopolist, whose reign provides history's first lesson in the power and peril of concentrated… — Timothy Wu Copy Share Image
