English law Quote by Edward Jenks

For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or…

— Margaret Thatcher

The invention of writs was really the making of the English Common Law; and the credit of this momentous achievement, which took place chiefly…

— Edward Jenks

It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow…

— Edward Jenks

We [Americans] inherited British law, which is like the new "reforms" that are being made now, in the sense that people are permanently entrapped…

— Marilynne Robinson

It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons…

— Margaret Thatcher

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

— Heather Brooke

“So conceived, the English police force served to emphasize a fundamental truth about the English law, which is that it exists not to control…

— Roger Scruton

“As Henry Nevinson also pointed out, the rule of law, such as it was, functioned in a system in which Indians were ‘compelled to…

— Shashi Tharoor

The law of England is a law of liberty .

— Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

— Voltaire