Quotes About Legal

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Spoofing? No. Ponzi scheme? Not at all! Just finance. Legal as hell.

When I turned eighteen, she sent Walker a card that joked 'He's finally legal!' Walker was completely horrified, but Mom's sense of humor often depended on someone else's horror.

I suppose that now you'll want to sleep with me?Alas big guy I'm taken.' 'No. you're not,'Regin said. 'Am too,' Nix said. 'Mike Rowe, the star of Dirty Jobs, is soon to realize I'm his beloved.' She sighed dreamily. 'He even got his lawyers to contact me on the pretext of a' she made air quotes 'restraining order.

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.

The difference between politics and religion is that the first makes it legal to hate, and makes the love of the second illegal.

We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.

There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.

I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.

In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.

In the US, the technical term for a limited liability company is a 'corporation', which is ironic, because the term derives from 'corpus' ('body' in Latin) – the one thing these corporations lack.

Según los legisladores franceses, si un abogado autorizado seguía la liturgia y los rituales adecuados, escribía todos los conjuros y juramentos en un pedazo de papel bellamente decorado, y añadía su adornada rúbrica al final del documento, entonces (¡abracadabra!) se constituía legalmente una nueva compañía. Cuando

Despite their having no real bodies, the American legal system treats corporations as legal person, as if they were flesh-and-blood human beings.

This is no kindergarten fairy tale, but an extremely powerful myth that continues to shape the lives of billions of humans and animals in the early twenty-first century. The belief that humans have eternal souls whereas animals are just evanescent bodies is a central pillar of our legal, political and economic system. It explains why, for example, it is perfectly okay for humans to kill animals for food, or even just for the fun of it.

Peugeot is a figment of our collective imagination. Lawyers call this a 'legal fiction'. It can't be pointed at; it is not a physical object. But it exists as a legal entity

Judicial systems are rooted in common legal myths.

the details of every legal proceeding

Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.

The judges' primary objective was to conduct a scrupulously fair legal proceeding that would win the respect of the world. Hausner's goal was to tell the story of the Holocaust in all its detail, and in so doing, to capture the imagination not just of Israel's youth and world Jewry, but of the entire world . -- The Eichmann Trial, page 121

Providing adequate representation even for defendants who appear guilty is the best way to protect those who are not.

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

It is astonishing how many people do not make a will – legal scholars say about 85 percent of the population dies intestate.

The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order.