Medieval justice was a quaint thing.
More Quotes from Frederick Pollock:
If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.Frederick Pollock
It is strange how little harm bad codes do.
Frederick Pollock
A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous
Frederick Pollock
Thoughts are pleasant companions if we choose them as well as we should choose other company.
Frederick Pollock
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
Frederick Pollock
Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.
Frederick Pollock
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