I always wanted to have 'Bad Boys' on TV. 'Common Law' is reminiscent of my youth. — Michael Ealy 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
The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England. — William Blackstone 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
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
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
... 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
