Common Law Quotes
Common Law Quote of the day
Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
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 the pre-existent rights of nature.
I expect from our judges that their verdicts are also inspired by Talmudic law - and not only by common law or European justice systems.
The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband.
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.
There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.
It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.
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 bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.
A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.
All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.
I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.
preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.
Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.
Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.
In Italy we have not a Common law legal system, we have a stupid one instead!