Frederick Pollock

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#doubts #fail #how #learned

Medieval justice was a quaint thing. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#medieval #quaint #thing

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#believe #how #many #patterns #rational

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. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#consider #essay #fact #gospel #merit

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#circle #every #his #narrow

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. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#any #consideration #ever #found #hack

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#been #done #enacted #even #heard

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

#any #background #behave #common #conduct

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

— Frederick Pollock

#any #assumed #cannot #common #common law

It is strange how little harm bad codes do. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#codes #harm #how #little #strange