Court Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves…

— Aristotle

The dispute is still before the judge.

— Horace

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

— Andrew Thomas

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of…

— Harold H. Greene

In my own opinions as a judge, I have never yet had occasion to find a statute ambiguous.

— Raymond Kethledge

Though this motion for a new trial is an application to the discretion of the Court, it must be remembered that the discretion to…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that…

— Rufus Choate

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the…

— Frank Herbert

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Circumstances alter cases.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton