18 Quotes by 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.

Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.

It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.

It is strange how little harm bad codes do.

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.

A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.