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Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.
Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.
Our system is not one of justice, but of law.
Our system is not one of justice, but of law.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every read more
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin
which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the
race that is set before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for
the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the
same, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.
Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, read more
Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, generally say, "Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.".
