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Common Law Quotes by Frederick Pollock
- It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.
- Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
More Common Law Quotes
- By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another,… — Thomas Jefferson
- 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
- The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious… — 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… — James Otis
- If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent… — Jefferson Davis
- It will come as no surprise to anybody to know that I support the traditional definition of marriage as a union of… — Stephen Harper
- Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of… — Edward Coke
- I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that… — 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… — Herman Wouk
- It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors. — Dionysius of Halicarnassus