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Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.
Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.
Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers.
[Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]
Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers.
[Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]
I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on
earth, that I think they will read more
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on
earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes
hereafter, some of them in hell.
The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very
expensive and dilatory.
The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very
expensive and dilatory.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.
Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.
