The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“For there is no true equivalence between languages, and English law differs from civil law in both its genesis and its practice.” — Jovan Autonomašević Copy Share Image
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An ancient English law made it a crime to witness a murder or discover a corpse and not raise a “hue and… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God… — James Otis Copy Share Image
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes… In mid-nineteenth-… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
“So conceived, the English police force served to emphasize a fundamental truth about the English law, which is that it exists not… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Under English law the penalty for eating meat on Friday was hanging. The law remained on the books until the sixteenth century,… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
