 Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own. |
| The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function. |
| Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties. |
| So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands. |
| Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say. |
| But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard. |
| It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse. |
| The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art. |
| Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not. |
| It is strange how little harm bad codes do. |
| Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit. |
| If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law. |
| Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows. |
| The oldest theory of contract is I think negative. |
| It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. |
| Medieval justice was a quaint thing. |
| I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted. |
