Frederick Pollock Quotes

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

Mean, Learned, Fail

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.
Frederick Pollock

Justice, Medieval, Quaint

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

Strange, Universe, Ultimate

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

Political, Revolution, Working

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

Pet, Students, Beyond

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

Together, Two, Why

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

Done, Heard, York

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

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

Law, Cannot, Common

It is strange how little harm bad codes do.
Frederick Pollock

Bad, Strange, Harm

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, Ignore, Between

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

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

Pretty, Far, Public

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

Find, Lawyer, Genuine

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.
Frederick Pollock

Negative, Theory, Contract

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.
Frederick Pollock

Art, Law, Practice

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

Life, Before, Until

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Judge

Born: December 10, 1845

Died: January 18, 1937

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