3,047 Quotes About Law

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

With you it is always the law, never equity.

Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.

A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.

It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.

Das Recht ist kein Kreißsaal für die Gerechtigkeit und hat niemals behauptet, einer zu sein. Das Recht besteht aus Gesetzen, Gesetze bestehen aus Wörtern, und Wörter können manches sein, sicher aber nicht gerecht.

Es [gibt] vielleicht pragmatische Urteile, nicht aber pragmatische Gerechtigkeit.

One who does a thing in order to avoid a monetary penalty does not agree; he yields to compulsion precisely the same as though he did so to avoid a term in jail."[Justice George Sutherland, in the majority opinion for the Carter Coal case]

Current science and technology have unlocked all mysteries.We make sense of it in a gradual process under law and order.