It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.

Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a change, is it necessary to draw up a code.

The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.

It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life.

Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?

The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied

It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did, it used the Writ of Trespass as the starting point.

The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.

If you wish for it, you can have it.

In my opinion, Nigeria matters! The body of Christ matters

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Music proposes. Sound disposes.

The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: At some point, a pit bull does stop whining.

I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

President Trump - God forbid - the country will be okay, I promise. I don't know exactly what the country will look like, but we will survive it.

Only photograph what you love.