Tag: Quotes
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International law quotes
“The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobbies and non-governmental organizations. They can either persist in averting their gaze from the egregious impunity enjoyed by a notorious war criminal and lawbreaker, or they can become seized by the exalted standards to which they continually hold everyone else. The…
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Competence and Evidence
Competence and Evidence “Their rules with regard to competence were many and strict, and our lawyers have mentioned it to their reproach. “The Civilians,” it has been observed, “differ in nothing more than admitting evidence; for they reject histriones, etc., and whole tribes of people.” But this extreme rigour as to competency rejected by our…
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 July 9, 1797) was an Irish political philosopher, Whig politician and statesman who is often regarded as the father of modern conservatism. Edmund Burke is very famous relating to Quotes . WORKS On Taste The introductory discourse to the aesthetic treatise On the Sublime and Beautiful. From the…
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The principal end of punishment
The principal end of punishment See Hallam’s Constitutional History and Speech on the Government of India “That, on great emergencies, the State may justifiably pass a retrospective act against an offender, we have no doubt whatever. We are acquainted with only one argument on the other side which has in it enough of reason to…
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Hallam's Constitutional History
Lord Macaulay’s Essay on Hallam’s Constitutional History See also Thomas Babington Macaulay and Speech on the Government of India From the Edinburgh Review, Sept., 1828 “Mr. Hallam is of opinion that a bill of pains and penalties ought to have been passed; but he draws a distinction less just, we think, than his distinctions usually…
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay See also Speech on the Government of India . “I believe that no country ever stood so much in need of a code of laws as India; and I believe also that there never was a country in which the want might so easily be supplied. I said that there were many…
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Speech on the Government of India
“Sir Francis Macnaghten tells us that it is a delusion to fancy that there is any known and fixed law under which the Hindoo people live; that texts may be produced on any side of any question; that expositors equal in authority perpetually contradict each other; that the obsolete law is perpetually confounded with the…
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Law quotes 4
Law quotes 4 See also: Law quotes – Law quotes 2 – Law quotes 3 – Lawyer Quotes A man who is no judge of law may be a good judge of poetry, or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting. John Dryden. Christianity is part of the law of England. Lord-Chancellor Eldon: 2…
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Law quotes 3
Law quotes 3 See also: Law quotes – Law quotes 2 – Law quotes 4 – Lawyer Quotes When we censure those who have gone before us for inefficiency in law reform, we should recollect that we ourselves have never solved the problem of recompensing professional labour without the test of the length of…
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Law quotes 2
Law quotes 2 See also: Law quotes – Law quotes 3 – Law quotes 4 – Lawyer Quotes In reality there are two, and only two, foundations of law; and they are both of them conditions without which nothing can give it any force: I mean equity and utility. With respect to the former, it…
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Law quotes
Law Quotes See also: Law quotes 2 – Law quotes 3 – Law quotes 4 – Lawyer Quotes How great soever the variety of municipal laws, it must be confessed that their chief outlines pretty regularly concur; because the purposes to which they tend are everywhere exactly similar. David Hume. It is his [the…