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Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.
Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.
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.]
The law is above the law, you know.
The law is above the law, you know.
If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.
If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to
this word, it is because there read more
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to
this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by read more
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is
contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds
contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto
himself; it invites anarchy.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Knowing this, that the law read more
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but
for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners,
for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of
mothers, for manslayers.
They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render
therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; read more
They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render
therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God
the things that are God's.