Famous quotes with Common law

• Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

  Edward Coke
• And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

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

  Frederick Pollock
• Christianity is part of the common law.

  James Wilson
• The common law of chattels, that is to say, the law ultimately adopted by the King's courts for the regulation of disputes about the ownership and possession of goods, was, to be a substantial extent, a by-product of that new procedure which had been mainly introduced to perfect the feudal scheme of land law.

  Edward Jenks

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