The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.
- Frederick Pollock
Negative, Think, I Think, Contract
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
Own, Students, Use, Narrow
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.
- Frederick Pollock
New, Doubts, Apt, Odd
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
Think, Pretty, Socialists, General Rule
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
Law, Admitted, Deny, Reasonably
It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.
- Frederick Pollock
Law, Equity, More, Common Law
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
Very, Still, Telling, Common Law
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
Vocation, Therein, Artistic, Peculiar
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
Fact, Will, Side, Essay
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
Say, Before, About, Suspects
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
Reason, Why, Another, Promises
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
Law, Test, Imposed, Forms
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
How, Ultimate, Truths, Rational
Medieval justice was a quaint thing.
- Frederick Pollock
Justice, Medieval, Thing, Quaint
The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.
- Frederick Pollock
Art, Law, Practice, Distinct
I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.
- Frederick Pollock
New, Been, Very, Abortion
It is strange how little harm bad codes do.
- Frederick Pollock
Bad, How, Harm, Codes
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