Common Law Quotes
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Common Law Quotes & Sayings
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Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
In Italy we have not a Common law legal system, we have a stupid one instead!
— Carl William Brown
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
— Edward Coke
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.
— Edward Gibbon
A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of a carpet must be a genius.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.
— Herman Boerhaave
Christianity is part of the common law.
— James Wilson
Common law is common right.
— Edward Coke
The law of common sense.
— Sophie Swetchine
Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places.
— Judith Sargent Murray
Common sense often makes good law.
— William O. Douglas
I expect from our judges that their verdicts are also inspired by Talmudic law - and not only by common law or European justice systems.
— Ayelet Shaked
It is the common peoples duty to police the police.
— Steven Magee
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.
— Henry David Thoreau
He was teaching the common-law rule against perpetuities, which limits how far into the future a will can control a line of inheritance.
— Sonia Sotomayor
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
— John Mortimer
A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
— Bainbridge Colby
Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
— Thomas Jefferson
Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
— Frederick Pollock
Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.
— Michael Gove
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
— Thomas Aquinas
Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
— Thomas Jefferson
There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.
— Joseph Story
It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.
— Frederick Pollock
Common sense often makes a good law.
— William O. Douglas
Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.
— Philip Yorke, 1st Earl Of Hardwicke
The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
With a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students
— Gary Shteyngart
Grove's Law: All large organizations with a common business purpose end up in a hybrid organizational form.
— Andrew S. Grove
It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.
— Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
He'd been going out with his right hand for so long they were practically common law spouses.
— Avery Flynn
Where there is no common power, there is no law
— Thomas Hobbes
Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.
— Thomas Jefferson
The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England.
— William Blackstone
The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband.
— Harriet Hanson Robinson
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.
— Learned Hand
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
— A.P. Herbert
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
— Thomas Aquinas
'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class and read it.
— Elizabeth Strout
