Common Law Quotes

38 quotes by 31 authors

By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of… — Thomas Jefferson
Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places. — Judith Sargent Murray
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the… — Douglass North
... 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.
Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of God and nature,… — James Otis
If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence.… — Jefferson Davis
It will come as no surprise to anybody to know that I support the traditional definition of marriage as a union of one man and… — Stephen Harper
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason. — Edward Coke
I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a… — Joseph Story
There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation. — Joseph Story
The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative,… — Herman Wouk
It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors. — Dionysius of Halicarnassus
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no… — Patricia Ireland
The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England. — William Blackstone
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'. — A. P. Herbert
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of… — James Madison
I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States (which principle possesses… — Thomas Jefferson
This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law,… — Joseph Story
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of… — Winston Churchill
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. — Learned Hand

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