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Quotes About Legal

And the civilian yelled, "I'm from the Times !" which made him a reporter and thus a legal kill in the codebook of the NYPD.
~ Carol O'Connell
The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.
~ George Jellinek
If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.
~ George Steiner
The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.
~ George Sutherland
Any type of violent attack can be termed as a result of legal terms,
~ George Young
Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.
~ Georgios A. Papandreou
John Paul was a bystander as the American church quietly approved an aggressive new legal strategy that included, as The Washington Post uncovered, "hiring high-powered law firms and private detectives to examine the personal lives of the church's accusers, fighting to keep documents secret and engaging in new tactics to minimize settlements."65
~ Gerald Posner
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Delay of justice is injustice.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
~ Cary Grant
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
~ Jeremy Bentham
That is the beauty of the Common Law, it is a maze and not a motorway.
~ Lord Diplock
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
~ Robert Frost
Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.
~ Joey Adams
The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff.
~ Legal maxim
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.
~ Max Stirner
No one should be twice punished for one crime.
~ Legal maxim
I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.
~ Naomi Wolf
I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one.
~ Voltaire
Well, as we were saying when last we met— I don't have to say dick to you without my lawyer. Did I ask you to say dick? Peabody, replay the record and verify that I at no time requested that the subject say dick.
~ J.D. Robb
There's no such thing as an amicable divorce.
~ J.D. Robb
Divorced him—hired a fucking shark lawyer—excuse the language." "No problem. Cops hear words like lawyer all the time." Fanny
~ J.D. Robb