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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Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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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

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The oldest theory of contract is I think negative. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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