Frederick Pollock Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Frederick Pollock Quotes and Sayings


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    But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard. Frederick Pollock | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit. Frederick Pollock | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own. Frederick Pollock | Refcard PDF
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    Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not. Frederick Pollock | Refcard PDF
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    I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted. Frederick Pollock | Refcard PDF
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    If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law. Frederick Pollock | Refcard PDF
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    It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse. Frederick Pollock | Refcard PDF
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    It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. Frederick Pollock | Refcard PDF
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    It is strange how little harm bad codes do. Frederick Pollock | Refcard PDF
  • 10
    Medieval justice was a quaint thing. Frederick Pollock | Refcard PDF
  • 11
    Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties. Frederick Pollock | Refcard PDF
  • 12
    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 | Refcard PDF
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    So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands. Frederick Pollock | Refcard PDF
  • 14
    The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function. Frederick Pollock | Refcard PDF
  • 15
    The oldest theory of contract is I think negative. Frederick Pollock | Refcard PDF
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    The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art. Frederick Pollock | Refcard PDF
  • 17
    Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say. Frederick Pollock | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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