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A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people. - Ambrose Bierce. 'Industrial Discontent', The Shadow on the Dial and other Essays (1909)
Law is the rule, principle, obligation or requirement of natural justice., Lysander Spooner, The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1860).
Technology is a sprinter, the law is a marathon runner., A.K.T. Rex
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer., Robert Frost
It is not the responsibility of the government or the legal system to protect a citizen from himself., Justice Casey Percell
There are no good laws except simple laws., Chrétien de Malesherbes (1775)
No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails., John Mortimer
One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws., Martin Luther King
Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise. To interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them., Voltaire
Prisoner: I want to ask whether it is likely —
Arabin: We have nothing to do with what is likely or unlikely: so many unlikely things happen in courts of justice that public time must not be wasted on such enquiries.
Commissioner Serjeant William Arabin, quoted by Stephen Tumim in Great Legal Fiascos, page 115.
Tis much more prudence to acquit two persons, though actually guilty, than to pass sentence of condemnation on one that is virtuous and innocent.
Voltaire
Who ever knew an honest brute/ at law his neighbor prosecute?
Johnathan Swift, The Logicians Refuted, 1735
Ignorantia juris non excusat. The true meaning of that maxim is that parties cannot excuse themselves from liability from all civil or criminal consequences of their acts by alleging ignorance of the law, but there is no presumption that parties must be taken to know all the legal consequences of their acts, and especially where difficult questions of law, or of the practice of the Court are involved.
Lord FitzGerald, Seaton v. Seaton (1888), L. R. 13 Ap. Ca. 78.
Very happily, the more the law is looked into, the more it appears founded in equity, reason, and good sense.
Lord Mansfield, James v. Price (1773), Lofft. 221.
It being a maxim that three things are always favoured in law, life, liberty and dower.
Per. Cur., Dumsday v. Hughes (1803), 3 Bos. and Pull. 456.
Lex est sanctio jiista jubens honesta et prohibens contraria.
Lex est summa ratio.
Ratio est anima legis.
Nulla vetita ant turpia praesumuntur, sed contraria omnia legitima ataue honesta.
The common lawe itselfe is nothing else but reason; which is to be understood of an artificiall perfection of reason, gotten by long study, observation, and of experience, and not of every man's natural reason; for nemo nascitur artifem. This legall reason est summa ratio. And therefore if all the reason that is dispersed into so many severall heads, were united into one, yet could he not make such a law as the law of England is, because by many successions of ages it hath been fined and refined by an infinite number of grave and learned men, and by long experience growne to such a perfection, for the gouvernment of this realme, as the old rule may be justly verified of it, neminem oportet esse sapientiorem legibus: no man, out of his own private reason, ought to be wiser than the law, which is the perfection of reason.
Lord Coke's Praise of the Law of England.
Judges could by their resolution alter the practice, but never the law.
Blackburn, J., Reg. v. Charlesworth (1861), 9 Cox, C. C. 67.
Law and conscience are one and the same.
Bacon, J., Watson v. Watson (1670), Style's Rep. 56.
The law has respect to human infirmity.
Best, C.J., Robertson v. McDougall (1828), 4 Bing. 679.
We cannot judge of the fact, but the law upon the fact.
Pratt, J., Rex v. Inhabitantes de Haughton (1718), 1 Str. Rep. 84.
What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.
Romer, J., Davies v. Parry (1899), 1 L. R. C. D. 605.
There is no worse torture than the torture of laws.
Lord Bacon, fo. edit. Vol. I. 440, 441.
Hard cases, it has been frequently observed, are apt to introduce bad law.
Wolfe, B., Winterbottom v. Wright (1842), 10 Meeson k Welsby, 116.
What is ridiculous and absurd never is, to my mind, to be adopted either in law or in equity.
Brett, M.R., In re Garnett; Gandy v. Macaulay (1885), L. R. 31 C. D. 9.
Omnis nova eonstitutio futuris temporibus formam imponere debet, non prateritis: Every new enactment should affect future, not past times.
2 Intt. 95.
Legality and oppression are not unknown to run hand in hand.
Hawkins, J., Roberts v. Jones; Willey v. Great Northern Railway Co. (1891), L. R. 2 Q. B. [1891], p. 203.
It is a public scandal when the law is forced to uphold a dishonest act.
Lord Macnaghten, Nordenfelt v. Maxim Nordenfelt &c. Co. (1894), L. R. App. Ca. Part 5, p. 573.
It would be of ill-consequence, to authenticate a body of laws, that have lain dormant for two hundred years.
Foster, J., The King v. Bishop of Ely (1750), 1 Black. Rep. 59.
De non apparentibus, et noti existentibia, eadem est ratio: Things which do not appear are to be treated as the same as those which do not exist.
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Shew me any law for that if you can, Mr. Williams, I know you are a lawyer.
Jefferies, L.C.J., Trial of John Hampden (1684), 9 How. St. Tr. 1057.
Every moral man is as much bound to obey the civil law of the land as the law of nature.
Eooke, J., Aubert v. Maze (1801), 1 Bos. & Pull. 375.
If a man endeavours to obtain a repeal of those laws, which are conceived to be obnoxious, or the introduction of any laws which he believes to be salutary, if he does that legally, there is no objection to it.
Bayley, J., R. v. Hunt and others (1820), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 484.
The law has prescribed a particular method, and we cannot alter the law, nor prevent the inconveniences.
Holt, C.J., Tawney's Case (1703), 2 Raym. 1013.
Sans fact conus, est impossible de seier la ley sur cest fact: Without a known fact, it is impossible to know the law on that fact.
Vaughan, J., Bushel's Case (1670), Jones's (Sir Thos.) Rep. 16.
It would be of ill-consequence, to authenticate a body of laws, that have lain dormant for two hundred years.
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