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Letter "C" » common law
«Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth. Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: every single one was a liar.»
Author: J. Edgar Hoover
| Keywords:
Above the Law, citizenship, common law, criminals, enforcement, law enforcement, To Tell the Truth, truth telling
«(Common law) stands as a monument slowly raised, like a coral reef, from the minute accretions of past individuals, of whom each built upon the relics which his predecessors left, and in his turn left a foundation upon which his successors might work»
Author: Learned Hand
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accretion, accretions, common law, coral, coral reef, monument, predecessors, Reef, relic, relics, successors
«Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.»
Author: Matthew Hale
| Keywords:
common law
«Common sense often makes good law.»
«Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
common law, consent, individuals, trampled, Tramples, trampling
«Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
| About:
Community,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
common good, common law, ordinance
«I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Direction,
Dreams
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«Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law»
«Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
common law, construe, construed, Everything or Nothing, Rules of, rule of law, sought, subtleties, The Rule of Law
«Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
authorities, common law, construction
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