Frederick Pollock Quotes

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• The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.
• Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack…
• It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.
• Medieval justice was a quaint thing.
• So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public…
• It is strange how little harm bad codes do.
• I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.
• Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you…
• But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
• Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
• It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.
• Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his…
• Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law…
• The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.
• The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
• If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well,…
• Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what…
• A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous

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