Quotes About Court

Here is another vignette of medieval England. John and Agnes Page, from a village in Kent, took John Pistor to the manor court. Agnes Page had purchased John Pistor's wife in exchange for a pig worth 3 shillings; John Pistor was happy with the arrangement for a while, but eventually he asked that his wife be returned to him on payment of 2 shillings. The bargain was agreed, but Pistor did not pay the sum. The jury found against him.

The argot that came to be used in the courts was known as 'Law French'. 'Master' and 'servant' come from the French. 'Crime' and 'treason' and 'felony' are French, as are 'money' and 'payment'. The

His fearless attack on both ends of the court galvanized the team.

And for most of that time, wisdom has had to work in secret, whispering her words, moving like a spy through the humble places of the world while the courts and palaces are occupied by her enemies.

Y durante buena parte del tiempo, la sabiduría ha tenido que trabajar en secreto, susurrando sus palabras, moviéndose como un espía a través de los lugares humildes del mundo mientras las cortes y los palacios están ocupados por sus enemigos.

With all due respect to this court, we've had to deal with so many other monkeys in so many other courtrooms, we felt it was only appropriate to bring in our own, so we could compete on equal terms.

We are asking the court recognize the right of the individuals to create a family contract of their own design, immune to the arbitary harassment and legal abuses of others.

Your motion is still denied, but I just want you to know I'm very impressed with your creativity.

Elizabeth for the whole of Edward's reign, never wore the rich jewels and clothes left her by her father. Instead, she offered a more virtuous example than the writing of Saints Peter and Paul, her maidenly apparel making the ladies of the court ashamed to be dressed and painted like peacocks.

But I doubt very much that Sheba's comic oddity will actually earn her more lenience from the court. In all likelihood, she'll receive exactly the same punishment as a man. The guardians of gender equality won't stand for anything else. In the end, I suspect, being female will do nothing for Sheba except deny her the grandeur of genuine villainy.

Of course in a democracy the government and the citizens have to abide by court rulings, even if we don't like them or don't agree with them.

Obviously as a player, it's good to feel wanted, and it's good for other people to acknowledge what you've been doing on the court.

I'm not the same person on the court. I'm different when I'm off the court. Off the court, I don't need to be aggressive or anything.

Everybody is trying to help me, to give me confidence, telling me that I'm a good player. Because I look shy on the court. So I have to be more aggressive.

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

Prudenta lui ii egala averea. Era de o umilinta excesiva. Niciodata orgoliul nu-l prinsese in capcanele sale. Acest negustor se facea atat de mic, de bland, de placut si de sarac la curte, in fata printeselor, regilor si favoritilor, incat aceasa modestie si bonomie ii pazisera afacerea.

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I fear to see the consequences of the Court's practices of substituting its own conceptions of decency and fundamental justice for the language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and enforcing that Bill of Rights.... To hold that this Court can determine what, if any, provisions of the Bill of Rights will be enforced, and if so to what degree, is to frustrate the great design of a written Constitution.

No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned and inscribed for the benefit of every human being subject to our Constitution—of whatever race, creed or persuasion.

The judge pronounced the sentence, and those words kept echoing in my head: Thirty-five years to life. His gavel came down and the court officers led me back to the holding cell.

They say he goes to it with every stable boy and every young buck at the court, and where will that get him when all know it is a sin in the eyes of the Lord, and one day the devil will stick a red-hot poker up his nether parts for all damnation.

That is all the money in the world at my disposition." She dropped the stilted words into the court like pebbles into a calm pool, wrapping her strange dignity around her like a cloak.

Glad to see you, Pettigrew. Are you defending the bigamy to-morrow?" "Alas! I am neither prosecuting nor defending. In fact, I am here on false pretences. For the time being, I am the lowest thing in the scale of human creation." The Clerk's bushy eyebrows met in a frown. "You're not going to tell me you've been summoned on a jury?" he said incredulously.

Like many other people, Mrs. Marshall imagined that business in the criminal courts was a succession of breath-taking thrills, that every case was a drama, every counsel a cross-examiner of genius "who could get anything out of you if he tried", every speech a torrent of eloquence, every Judge a Solon.