Quotes About Legal

Het op eigen gezag beslechten van geschillen mocht dan in vroegere tijden gangbaar zijn, thans behoort het thuis bij de rechterlijke macht.

It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.

Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge.

One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, today is doctrine.

Love is grand; divorce a hundred grand.

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted.

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea [The act is not criminal unless the intent is criminal].

Res iudicata pro veritate habetur [A matter that has been legally decided is considered true].

De minimis non curat lex [The law is not concerned with trifles].

Testis unus testis nullus [A single witness is no witness].

Habeas corpus [You are to produce the person].

He wants a Bill of Rights for Britain drafted by a Committee of Lawyers. Have you ever tried drafting anything with a Committee of Lawyers?

In the months that followed he brought a rapid succession of cases to court—as he recalled, "smelling somewhat of midnight oil.

So the issue came down to whether plotting to commit treason could be equated with the act of treason itself. Cato was in no doubt that this was so, but he was arguing in the heat of the moment. In the final analysis, he and the other Senators were behaving not as legal experts but as politicians forced to come to a quick decision in an emergency. Nobody at the time challenged their right to do so.

The Forum was the city's political, commercial, and legal heart, but it was also its spiritual center, a space more sacred than the city itself.

From my experience, law firms are always quiet places. Maybe it's because they make words so expensive that they tend to use them sparingly among themselves.

Two women, one a writer, the other a publisher, had both come up against the same lawyer. At least one of them had been trashed by him and had threatened to kill him. And now the other one was providing an alibi for her.

I support immigration, provided the people come through legally, and that is based upon merit.

A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.

There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly.

After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.

One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal legal system that need to be changed, and this is just one of them. Prosecutors know how to play the press. Most defendants don't.