Medieval justice was a quaint thing.
Frederick Pollock

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

It is strange how little harm bad codes do.
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.
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

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

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

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