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Law Quotes - Page 299

Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?

Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?

Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

Edward Gibbon (1826). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.540

There be three kinds of unhappie men. 1. Qui scit & non docet, Hee that hath knowledge and teacheth not. 2. Qui docet & non vivit, He that teacheth, and liveth not thereafter. 3. Qui nescit, & non interrogat, He that knoweth not, and doth not enquire to understand.

Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Sir Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (Earl of) (1853). “The first part of the Institutes of the laws of England: or, A commentary upon Littleton. Not the name of the author only, but of the law itself ...”, p.378

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.

Sir Edward Coke, Steve Sheppard (2003). “The selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke”, Liberty Fund Inc.

The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day

Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.98, NYU Press

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1972). “Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay”

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1537, Delphi Classics

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Aaron Parrett (2004). “The Martian Tales Trilogy”, p.58, Barnes & Noble Publishing

I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.

"Dog to wed in third season of 'Bounty Hunter'" by the Associated Press, www.today.com. March 21, 2006.