6 Frederick Pollock Quotes about Law

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


” 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. “


” Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows. “


” 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. “


” The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art. “


” The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein… scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function. “



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


Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
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.
The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
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