Quotes About Legal

There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.

The words of law often look like words of the language you speak, but when they are legal terms, they are not.

Over the years Sumner amended his trust more than forty times to add and remove numerous beneficiaries, many of them women he dated. Dauman, who as a cotrustee of Sumner's trust was aware of many of the gifts, acknowledged that "several" women received over $20 million each, "a lot" of women received over $10 million, and "many, many" women received over $1 million.

The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.

Myself I prefer to have the government out of my pocket legally as much as possible but I am not a lawyer so I cannot give legal advice and therefore do not go into details with anyone

legal concepts as "avowal" and "distraint" that have now all but vanished.

the legal and political debate surrounding the just management of plurality will continue well into the future.

President Jefferson and the members of the current Congress. Whenever the man commits some new act meriting opprobrium, even outrage, his henchmen in the Congress scurry about like mad to search out arguments to make it sound as though what he has done is not just legal, but is somehow congruent with his political philosophy.

it was impossible to confine a Government to the exercise of express powers; there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication, unless the Constitution descended to recount every minutia

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

He found the courses at law school ill-suited to his temperament, noting critically that the professors were more concerned with "what law is, not what it ought to be," emphasizing legal precedents rather than justice.

There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.

I always said the professional advocate was the most amoral person on the face of the earth. I'm certain of it now.

He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.

The insurance companies involved had all claimed that this was, by any reasonable standards, an act of God. But, Dirk had argued, which god? Britain was constitutionally a Christian monotheistic state, and therefore any "act of God" defined in a legal document must refer to the Anglican chap in the stained glass and not to some polytheistic thug from Norway.

He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.

In the winter time the temperature falls well below the legal minimum.

Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765) was the most famous legal treatise of its time. It was originally delivered as a series of lectures at Oxford, and its ambitious aim was to put forward a coherent and comprehensive account of a notoriously unruly subject, the law as it had evolved historically in England.

I suppose the whole thing was highly irregular from a legal point of view, but it was great fun. And nobody was having more fun than the judge. It wasn't a real trial, you see, so he didn't have to worry about all the legal niceties.

Eight months passed before they were actually charged with murder: That was how long it took to develop the "evidence." In the United States, suspects typically cannot be held more than 72 hours without being charged.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities.

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

grand jury indictment is not a conviction.

Catch One: The Case of Edmund Rosner