Quotes About Legal

Find out what the cops know before you tell them your version. And always call your lawyer!

Objection! Repetitious." Socolow was on his feet. "Sustained. Mr. Lassiter, I do think you've mined this ground." "Thank you, Your Honor," I said, bowing slightly, more to loosen up my back than pay homage to the judge.

The bailiff tucked the jurors into their windowless room where they could surf for porn on their PDAs, and the judge turned to me. "Mr. Lassiter, Ah assume you got some legal mumbo jumbo for the record." His Honor came from a family of gentleman farmers in Homestead by way of Kentucky, and his voice rippled with bourbon and branch water.

She said, 'Is that legal?' 'I was trained to use bigger guns than this.' Which didn't exactly answer her question.

Under Japanese law, suspects can be held in a police cell for up to 23 days without charge. If they are not charged by the 23rd day they have to be released, but they can be subsequently rearrested and held for the same period on a different charge.

We were married at All Saints on a sun-shocked Wednesday in October, two weeks before my seventeenth birthday. The legal marrying age was eighteen then, but my father thought I was old enough, and that seemed good enough for me.

According to the legal historian Akhil Reed Amar, before the enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1868, "the Supreme Court never—not once—referred to the 1792 decalogue as 'the' or 'a' bill of rights.

Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it.

admit to it in court, or certainly in a sworn statement. Even more unlikely.

Confound the subtlety of lawyers with the subtlety of the law.

The majority of my fellow human beings are peaceful people. I have legal authorities to aid in my protection if threatened by the few who aren't. I invoke thoughts and images of my friends' love and support.

All rights which can be realized in court arise from some event which happens in the world.

If you are unfortunate enough to be involved in legal action, you've got to realize that it's a three-way fight: There's you, there's your opponent, and there's your lawyer. And your lawyer is not on your side. His job is to get as much money as possible out of you, frequently in collusion with the other side's lawyer, and then move on to another client.

Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it.

So government did what government always does when confronted with an opposition which can't be brought down by fair and legal means. It cheated.

A promise made under duress is not legally binding. I'm sure you'll have enough lawyers on your side to confirm that.