Frederick Pollock quotes

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)
Medieval justice was a quaint thing. View quote
Frederick Pollock
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard. View quote
Frederick Pollock
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. View quote
Frederick Pollock
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. View quote
Frederick Pollock
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. View quote
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The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art. View quote
Frederick Pollock
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. View quote
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. View quote
Frederick Pollock
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. View quote
Frederick Pollock
The oldest theory of contract is I think negative. (Frederick Pollock)
It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse. View quote
Frederick Pollock
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. View quote
Frederick Pollock
It is strange how little harm bad codes do. View quote
Frederick Pollock
I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted. View quote
Frederick Pollock
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. View quote
Frederick Pollock
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function. View quote
Frederick Pollock