Laws are the spider's webs which if anything small falls into them they ensnare it but large things break through and escape.
Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
That is the beauty of the Common Law it is a maze and not a motorway.
The law of England is a very strange one it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.
Trudeau: Yes well there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go on and bleed but it is more important to keep law and order...
When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter "How can you do this to me? - a heart attack at my age? I'm only 30." Replied St. Peter: "When we looked at your total hours billed we figured yo...
You are remembered for the rules you break.
Law ... begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not like.
Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it.
Show me the man and I'll show you the law.
A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
The adversary system is a kind of warfare in mufti.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.
In America an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience.
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